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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Brian R. Prasky, Campbell Hall, NY (US);
Fadi Y. Busaba, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Steven R. Carlough, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Christopher A. Krygowski, Lagrangeville, NY (US);
Chung-lung K. Shum, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to prefetching data on a chip having a scout core and a parent core coupled to the scout core. The method includes determining that a program executed by the parent core requires content stored in a location remote from the parent core. The method includes sending a fetch table address determined by the parent core to the scout core. The method includes accessing a fetch table that is indicated by the fetch table address by the scout core. The fetch table indicates how many of pieces of content are to be fetched by the scout core and a location of the pieces of content. The method includes based on the fetch table indicating, fetching the pieces of content by the scout core. The method includes returning the fetched pieces of content to the parent core.