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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2003
Hong Wang, Fremont, CA (US);
Tor M. Aamodt, Toronto, CA;
Pedro Marcuello, Barcelona, ES;
Jared W. Stark, Iv, Portland, OR (US);
John P. Shen, San Jose, CA (US);
Antonio González, Barcelona, ES;
Per Hammarlund, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Gerolf F. Hoflehner, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Perry H. Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Steve Shih-wei Liao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hong Wang, Fremont, CA (US);
Tor M. Aamodt, Toronto, CA;
Pedro Marcuello, Barcelona, ES;
Jared W. Stark, IV, Portland, OR (US);
John P. Shen, San Jose, CA (US);
Antonio González, Barcelona, ES;
Per Hammarlund, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Gerolf F. Hoflehner, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Perry H. Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Steve Shih-wei Liao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The latencies associated with retrieving instruction information for a main thread are decreased through the use of a simultaneous helper thread. The helper thread is a speculative prefetch thread to perform instruction prefetch and/or trace pre-build for the main thread.