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Assistance for hardware prefetch in cache access

US11934342B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

Altug Koker · Cameron Park, US
Varghese George · Folsom, US
Aravindh Anantaraman · Folsom, US
Valentin Andrei · San Jose, US
Abhishek R. Appu · Cameron Park, US
Niranjan L. Cooray · Folsom, US
Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries · Portland, US
Mike B. Macpherson · Portland, US
Subramaniam Maiyuran · Citrus, US
Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall · Chandler, US
David Puffer · Tempe, US
Vasanth Ranganathan · Cameron Park, US
Joydeep Ray · Folsom, US
Ankur N. Shah · Folsom, US
Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma · Folsom, US
Prasoonkumar Surti · Folsom, US
Saurabh Tangri · Folsom, US

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 14, 2020
Grant date	Mar 19, 2024
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 13, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T15/06
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Embodiments are generally directed to graphics processor data access and sharing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a circuit element to produce a result in processing of an application; a load-store unit to receive the result and generate pre-fetch information for a cache utilizing the result; and a prefetch generator to produce prefetch addresses based at least in part on the pre-fetch information; wherein the load-store unit is to receive software assistance for prefetching, and wherein generation of the pre-fetch information is based at least in part on the software assistance.

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