Hi Avadh

Thanks for your prompt reply. You mean Marss can execute prefetch
instruction but it will not bring up the prefetched memory address into the
simulator cache data structures ?

Thanks
Alireza

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:36 AM, avadh patel <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Alireza Haghdoost <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am wondering if marss simulator can execute simple x86 SSE instructions
>> or at least prefetch instruction ? What happen if I run a benchmark which
>> has some x86 prefetch instructions on the top of this simulator ?
>>
>> Marss simulates SSE instructions (up to 3.2 version).  For prefetch,
> marss does simulate it, but it doesn't generate any cache request for those
> instructions for now.
>
> - Avadh
>
> Thanks
>>
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