SHEN Li, WANG Zhi-ying, LU Jian-zhuang, et al. Hybrid Instruction Prefetch Based on Control Flow[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2003, 31(8): 1141-1144.
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SHEN Li, WANG Zhi-ying, LU Jian-zhuang, et al. Hybrid Instruction Prefetch Based on Control Flow[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2003, 31(8): 1141-1144.DOI:
Instruction supply can influence processor performance greatly.Instruction prefetching is an effective mechanism to reduce instruction cache miss rate.It proposes an instruction prefetching mechanism based on program control flow graph
while sequential prefetch and non-sequential prefetch are both employed to fetch instructions in advance.Experimental results show it can increase instruction cache hit rate effectively.It predicts program behavior statically so that it does not need any complex hardware to predict and restore.