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STRIDE PREFETCHING ACROSS MEMORY PAGES

  • US 20150026414A1
  • Filed: 07/17/2013
  • Published: 01/22/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • identifying, at a processor, a first stride value based on a first memory access request to a first memory page;

    in response to a sum of the first stride value and a memory address of the first memory access exceeding a page boundary of the first memory page, maintaining a first prefetch confidence associated with the first memory access; and

    in response to a second memory access to a second memory page subsequent to the first memory access, prefetching data from the memory based on the maintained first prefetch confidence.

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