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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2010

Filed:

Nov. 09, 2005
Applicants:

Rakesh Krishnaiyer, Milpitas, CA (US);

Somnath Ghosh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Abhay Kanhere, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Rakesh Krishnaiyer, Milpitas, CA (US);

Somnath Ghosh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Abhay Kanhere, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The prefetch distance to be used by a prefetch instruction may not always be correctly calculated using compile-time information. In one embodiment, the present invention generates prefetch distance calculation code to dynamically calculate a prefetch distance used by a prefetch instruction at run-time.


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