prefetch in English

verb
1
transfer (data) from main memory to temporary storage in readiness for later use.
The target can thus be prefetched before the actual address has been calculated and placed in a register.
noun
1
a process or instance of prefetching data.
Some changes were made to the hardware prefetch mechanism to increase its efficiency, in addition to software prefetches now being stored in the trace cache.

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1. A dual function adder for computing a hardware prefetch address and an arithmetic operation value

2. The system schedules explicit prefetch instructions into the critical section in advance of associated memory operations.

3. The core has enhancements to the K7's TLB architecture and added a hardware data prefetch mechanism to take better advantage of available memory bandwidth.

4. The IOMMU (26) comprises one or more caches (30), and is configured to read translation data from the I/O translation tables (36) responsive to a prefetch command (148) that specifies a first virtual address.