LINK STACK BASED INSTRUCTION PREFETCH AUGMENTATION

A computer-implemented method of performing a link stack based prefetch augmentation using a sequential prefetching includes observing a call instruction in a program being executed, and pushing a return address onto a link stack for processing the next instruction. A stream of instructions is prefe...

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Zusammenfassung:A computer-implemented method of performing a link stack based prefetch augmentation using a sequential prefetching includes observing a call instruction in a program being executed, and pushing a return address onto a link stack for processing the next instruction. A stream of instructions is prefetched starting from a cached line address of the next instruction and is stored in an instruction cache.