thank u very much steve, it clears all the doubts, one last q is it
operating on virtual or physical address? thanks again for your time

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]> wrote:

> The prefetch queue is just a queue of addresses generated by the
> prefetcher; when the cache has an opportunity it will pull an address of
> that queue and generate a prefetch request for it.  While the prefetch
> request is outstanding it is tracked in the MSHRs like any other request.
>  When the response returns, the data is put in the cache, again just like
> any other request.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:36 AM, biswabandan panda <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> i mean to say prefetch queue
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> There is no prefetch buffer... what code makes you think that there is?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:08 AM, biswabandan panda 
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>           It seem the prefetched blockse were not transferred to upper
>>>> level cache. what i understood from the code in prefetch folder 
>>>> cacheimpl.hh
>>>> and mshr.hh, is from the processor side, it will search in the L1 cache and
>>>> then in the mshr and then in the prefetch buffer. So the prefetched block
>>>> never transfered to L1 cache. Please correct me if i was wrong?
>>>>
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