Journal article
Horizontal demand prefetching: A novel approach to eliminating the jump problem
Abstract
The principle of a novel prefetching strategy, horizontal demand prefetching, is presented. This mechanism allows deep prefetching without jump-related misses by prefetching shallowly across several independent streams in a horizontal fashion. Multistream processors using this technique can achieve very high memory utilization. The mechanism supports very efficient multitasking and hardware process synchronization. The structure and performance …
Authors
McCrackin DC; Szabados B
Journal
IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 118–124
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI
10.1109/cjece.1991.6592942
ISSN
0840-8688