US Patent 10417130 System and method for spatial memory streaming training

Apparatuses, systems, methods for a spatial memory streaming (SMS) prefetch engine are described. In one aspect, an SMS prefetch engine uses trigger-to-trigger stride detection to promote training table entries to pattern history table (PHT) entries and to drive spatially related prefetches in more distant regions. In another aspect, an SMS prefetch engine maintains a blacklist of program counter (PC) values to not use as trigger values. In yet another aspect, an SMS prefetch engine uses hashed values of certain fields, such as the trigger PC, in entries of, e.g., filter tables, training tables, and PHTs, as index values for the table.