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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2008
Applicant:
Anil Pothireddy, Hyderabad, IN;
Inventor:
Anil Pothireddy, Hyderabad, IN;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed is a cache memory, design structure, and corresponding method for improving cache performance comprising one or more cache lines of equal size, each cache line adapted to store a cache block of data from a main memory in response to an access request from a processor; and a predict buffer, of size equal to the size of the cache lines, configured to store a next block of data from said main memory in response to a predict-fetch signal generated using at least one previous access request.