US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on May 12 for "Prefetch throttling based on cache thrashing" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,816, issued on May 12, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Prefetch throttling based on cache thrashing" was invented by Aswinkumar Sridharan (Chennai, India) and Anasua Bhowmik (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with the described techniques, a processor includes a cache system having a level two cache, and a hardware prefetcher associated with the level two cache. The hardware prefetcher monitors a workload that includes accesses to the level two cache, and measures a degree of thrashing exhibited by the workload in the level two cache based on the accesses. Prefetch reques...