公开(公告)号：US08140759B2

公开(公告)日：2012-03-20

申请号：US12424716

申请日：2009-04-16

申请人： Bradly George Frey ,  Guy Lynn Guthrie ,  Cathy May ,  Ramakrishnan Rajamony ,  Balaram Sinharoy ,  William John Starke ,  Peter Kenneth Szwed

发明人： Bradly George Frey ,  Guy Lynn Guthrie ,  Cathy May ,  Ramakrishnan Rajamony ,  Balaram Sinharoy ,  William John Starke ,  Peter Kenneth Szwed

IPC分类号： G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06F12/0862 ,  G06F12/0811 ,  G06F12/0817 ,  G06F2212/6028

摘要： A system and method for specifying an access hint for prefetching only a subsection of cache block data, for more efficient system interconnect usage by the processor core. A processing unit receives a data cache block touch (DCBT) instruction containing an access hint and identifying a specific size portion of data to be prefetched. Both the access hint and a value corresponding to an amount of data to be prefetched are contained in separate subfields of the DCBT instruction. In response to detecting that the code point is set to a specific value, only the specific size of data identified in a sub-field of the DCBT and addressed in the DCBT instruction is prefetched into an entry in the lower level cache.

摘要翻译： 用于指定用于仅预取高速缓存块数据的子部分的访问提示的系统和方法，用于处理器核心的更有效的系统互连使用。 处理单元接收包含访问提示的数据高速缓存块触摸（DCBT）指令，并且识别要预取的数据的特定大小部分。 访问提示和对应于要预取的数据量的值都包含在DCBT指令的单独子字段中。 响应于检测到代码点被设置为特定值，仅在DCBT指令的DCBT的子字段中标识的数据的特定大小被预取到低级缓存中的条目中。

公开(公告)号：US20100268886A1

公开(公告)日：2010-10-21

申请号：US12424716

申请日：2009-04-16

申请人： Bradly George Frey ,  Guy Lynn Guthrie ,  Cathy May ,  Ramakrishnan Rajamony ,  Balaram Sinharoy ,  William John Starke ,  Peter Kenneth Szwed

发明人： Bradly George Frey ,  Guy Lynn Guthrie ,  Cathy May ,  Ramakrishnan Rajamony ,  Balaram Sinharoy ,  William John Starke ,  Peter Kenneth Szwed

IPC分类号： G06F12/08 ,  G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F12/0862 ,  G06F12/0811 ,  G06F12/0817 ,  G06F2212/6028

摘要： A system and method for specifying an access hint for prefetching only a subsection of cache block data, for more efficient system interconnect usage by the processor core. A processing unit receives a data cache block touch (DCBT) instruction containing an access hint and identifying a specific size portion of data to be prefetched. Both the access hint and a value corresponding to an amount of data to be prefetched are contained in separate subfields of the DCBT instruction. In response to detecting that the code point is set to a specific value, only the specific size of data identified in a sub-field of the DCBT and addressed in the DCBT instruction is prefetched into an entry in the lower level cache.

摘要翻译： 用于指定用于仅预取高速缓存块数据的子部分的访问提示的系统和方法，用于处理器核心的更有效的系统互连使用。 处理单元接收包含访问提示的数据高速缓存块触摸（DCBT）指令，并且识别要预取的数据的特定大小部分。 访问提示和对应于要预取的数据量的值都包含在DCBT指令的单独子字段中。 响应于检测到代码点被设置为特定值，仅在DCBT指令的DCBT的子字段中标识的数据的特定大小被预取到低级缓存中的条目中。