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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2011
Applicant:
Nitzan Peleg, Haifa, IL;
Inventor:
Nitzan Peleg, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and product for data prefetching. The method comprising: prefetching data associated with a load instruction of a computer program, wherein the prefetching is performed in anticipation to performing the load instruction, whereby the data is retained in the cache; detecting whether the prefetched data of the prefetching is invalidated after the prefetching commenced and prior to performing the load instruction; and adaptively determining whether to modify the prefetching data operation associated with the load instruction in response to the detection.