Patent ID: 11947461
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:
identifying whether the request for data received at the next level of memory in the memory hierarchy is a demand request or a prefetch request; and
determining, in response to identifying the request for data received at the next level of memory in the memory hierarchy is a prefetch request, whether to terminate the prefetch request received at the next level of memory in the memory hierarchy,
wherein determining whether to terminate the prefetch request received at the next level of memory in the memory hierarchy comprises:
determining how many hits have occurred for the prefetch request stream corresponding to the prefetch request received at the next level of memory in the memory hierarchy;
determining, based upon the number of hits that have occurred for the prefetch stream corresponding to the prefetch request received at the next level of memory in the memory hierarchy, whether to terminate the prefetch request.