International Business Machines Corporation
Operation of a multi-slice processor implementing adaptive prefetch control

Abstract:

Operation of a multi-slice processor that includes a plurality of execution slices. Operation of such a multi-slice processor includes: determining, by a hypervisor, that consumption of memory controller resources, by a plurality of processing threads, is above a threshold quantity, wherein respective processing threads of the plurality of processing threads control respective prefetch settings; and responsive to determining that the consumption of the memory controller resources is above the threshold quantity, modifying individual memory controller usage of at least one of the plurality of processing threads such that the consumption of the memory controller resources is reduced below the threshold quantity.