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使用预取查找表预先识别先前访问的缓存行

Prefetching using a prefetch lookup table identifying previously accessed cache lines
Abstract:
A data processing apparatus has prefetch circuitry for prefetching cache lines of instructions into an instruction cache. A prefetch lookup table is provided for storing prefetch entries, with each entry corresponding to a region of a memory address space and identifying at least one block of one or more cache lines within the corresponding region from which processing circuitry accessed an instruction on a previous occasion. When the processing circuitry executes an instruction from a new region, the prefetch circuitry looks up the table, and if it stores a prefetch entry for the new region, then the at least one block identified by the corresponding entry is prefetched into the cache.
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