Stride adaptive prefetching scheme on secondary cache
Jianzhuang Lu · Computer Engineering and Applications Journal · 2011
With the rapid development of VLSI technology,it is possible to implement large cache on chip,which can effectively reduce the rate of cache miss.However,the large cache also makes the penalty larger than before when cache miss occurs.By analyzing the feature of cache miss,a new stride adaptive prefetching scheme on secondary cache is proposed.And the scheme uses the miss address as index to check prefetching table,because the instruction address is invisible to secondary cache.By analyzing the testing result,the appropriate structure parameters are selected,which greatly improves the cache performance.