Journal article
Using horizontal prefetching to circumvent the jump problem
Abstract
The principle of a novel prefetching mechanism, horizontal demand prefetching, is presented. The mechanism allows deep prefetching without jump related misses by prefetching horizontally across independent instruction streams. The scheme can achieve high memory utilization at the expense of processor utilization. The mechanism permits very rapid context switching with no overhead for a hardware-limited number of tasks. The design and …
Authors
McCrackin DC; Szabados B
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 40, No. 11, pp. 1287–1291
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Publication Date
1991
DOI
10.1109/12.102835
ISSN
0018-9340