APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING DATA PREFETCHING EFFICIENCY USING HISTORY BASED PREFETCHING
Patent №
US 8,683,136
Granted
2014-03-25
Filed 2010
Owner
INTEL CORPORATION
Lab
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AI components
1
hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12976775
An apparatus and method are described for performing history-based prefetching. For example a method according to one embodiment comprises: determining if a previous access signature exists in memory for a memory page associated with a current stream; if the previous access signature exists, reading the previous access signature from memory; and issuing prefetch operations using the previous access signature.
AI classification
Ownership
INTEL CORPORATION
assignment · 292400636
Assignors
CHERUKURI, NAVEEN, AZIMI, MANI
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