Stride prefetcher

Tag: stride-prefetcher

Aliases: PC-based stride prefetcher, stride-based prefetcher

A hardware prefetcher that detects constant strides between consecutive accesses by the same static load (or by the same address-history key) and issues prefetches for the predicted next addresses. Captures regular array and matrix patterns including non-unit strides.

Lecture references

• L14 · Prefetching — p.24 , p.25 , p.28