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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2004
James C. Abel, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Brad D. Hinkle, Chandler, AZ (US);
Nikolay Degtyarenko, Nizhny Novgorod Region, RU;
James C. Abel, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Brad D. Hinkle, Chandler, AZ (US);
Nikolay Degtyarenko, Nizhny Novgorod Region, RU;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Pixel values of an image are loaded into main memory and cache of a computer system. Two different instructions are used to load pixel values of the image from the cache to a set of registers in a processor of the system. A first one is used when loading an operand (containing pixel values) that is aligned with a cache line boundary of the cache. A second instruction is to be used when loading an operand (containing pixel values) that is not aligned with the cache line boundary. The second instruction can execute a cache line split without a significant performance penalty relative to execution of the first instruction. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.