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Old April 8th 06, 09:19 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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Default disabling hardware data prefetch

Does anyone know how to disable hardware data prefetch on the Athlon64
architecture?

I want to turn this feature off because I want to use software
prefetching instructions to load cache lines from memory and I don't
want the hardware prefetcher interfering with my software prefetch
schedule.

The Pentium and Xeon processors also have hardware prefetching and it
can be disabled by zeroing a bit in a MSR (Model Specific Register).
Specifically, it is bit 9 of MSR "IA32_MISC_ENABLE." The
Athlon/Opteron docs don't show a corresponding MSR (I believe it is
specific to Pentium/Xeon). And the AMD docs don't indicate any way
of disabling hardware prefetch.

Thanks,

-- Steve

 




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