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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2007
Aaron Kunze, Portland, OR (US);
Erik J. Johnson, Portland, OR (US);
Hermann Gartler, Portland, OR (US);
Aaron Kunze, Portland, OR (US);
Erik J. Johnson, Portland, OR (US);
Hermann Gartler, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, the invention involves a novel combination of techniques for prefetching data and passing messages between and among cores in a multi-processor/multi-core platform. In an embodiment, a receiving core has a message queue and a message prefetcher. Incoming messages are simultaneously written to the message queue and the message prefetcher. The prefetcher speculatively fetches data referenced in the received message so that the data is available when the message is executed in the execution pipeline, or shortly thereafter. Other embodiments are described and claimed.