Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing – Instruction fetching – Prefetching
Patent
1999-07-08
2000-09-12
Treat, William M.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing
Instruction fetching
Prefetching
712244, G06F 938
Patent
active
06119218&
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for prefetching data in a computer system that inces a processor. A prefetch instruction is executed and, in response, data is prefetched from a memory location. It is determined if a memory exception occurred during the prefetching of the data. If a memory exception occurred, the exception is handled if the prefetch instruction indicates to do so.
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Arora Judge K.
Huck Jerome C.
Mills Jack D.
Institute for the Development of Emerging Architectures L.L.C.
Treat William M.
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