Method and apparatus for prefetching data in a computer system
A method and apparatus for prefetching data in a computer system that includes a processor. A prefetch instruction is executed and, in response, data is prefetched from a memory location. It is determined if a memory exception occurred during the prefetching of the data. If a memory exception occurr...
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| Zusammenfassung: | A method and apparatus for prefetching data in a computer system that includes a processor. A prefetch instruction is executed and, in response, data is prefetched from a memory location. It is determined if a memory exception occurred during the prefetching of the data. If a memory exception occurred, the exception is handled if the prefetch instruction indicates to do so. |
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