SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREFETCHING DATA INTO A CACHE BASED ON MISS DISTANCE

摘要

A prefetcher to prefetch data for an instruction based on the distance between cache misses caused by the instruction. In an embodiment, the prefetcher includes a memory to store a prefetch table that contains one or more entries that include the distance between cache misses caused by an instruction. In a further embodiment, the addresss of data element sprefetched are determined based on the distance betweeen cache misses recorded in the prefetch table for the instruction.