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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2010
Applicants:
Stephen P. Thompson, Longmont, CO (US);
Tarun Nakra, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Stephen P. Thompson, Longmont, CO (US);
Tarun Nakra, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/8062 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6026 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for adapting aggressiveness of a pre-fetcher in a processor-based system. One embodiment includes modifying a rate for pre-fetching data from a memory into one or more caches by comparing a first address of a memory access request to addresses in an address window that includes one or more previously fetched addresses and one or more addresses to be fetched.