physical... all addresses in the memory system are physical, as the
translation is done in the CPU.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:29 AM, biswabandan panda <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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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