PRFB (vector plus immediate)

Gather prefetch bytes (vector plus immediate)

Gather prefetch of bytes from the active memory addresses generated by a vector base plus immediate index. The index is in the range 0 to 31. Inactive addresses are not prefetched from memory.

The <prfop> symbol specifies the prefetch hint as a combination of three options: access type PLD for load or PST for store; target cache level L1, L2 or L3; temporality (KEEP for temporal or STRM for non-temporal).

It has encodings from 2 classes: 32-bit element and 64-bit element

32-bit element

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
10000100000imm5111PgZn0prfop
msz<1>msz<0>

PRFB <prfop>, <Pg>, [<Zn>.S{, #<imm>}]

if !HaveSVE() then UNDEFINED; integer esize = 32; integer g = UInt(Pg); integer n = UInt(Zn); integer level = UInt(prfop<2:1>); boolean stream = (prfop<0> == '1'); pref_hint = if prfop<3> == '0' then Prefetch_READ else Prefetch_WRITE; integer scale = 0; integer offset = UInt(imm5);

64-bit element

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
11000100000imm5111PgZn0prfop
msz<1>msz<0>

PRFB <prfop>, <Pg>, [<Zn>.D{, #<imm>}]

if !HaveSVE() then UNDEFINED; integer esize = 64; integer g = UInt(Pg); integer n = UInt(Zn); integer level = UInt(prfop<2:1>); boolean stream = (prfop<0> == '1'); pref_hint = if prfop<3> == '0' then Prefetch_READ else Prefetch_WRITE; integer scale = 0; integer offset = UInt(imm5);

Assembler Symbols

<prfop>

Is the prefetch operation specifier, encoded in prfop:

prfop <prfop>
0000 PLDL1KEEP
0001 PLDL1STRM
0010 PLDL2KEEP
0011 PLDL2STRM
0100 PLDL3KEEP
0101 PLDL3STRM
x11x #uimm4
1000 PSTL1KEEP
1001 PSTL1STRM
1010 PSTL2KEEP
1011 PSTL2STRM
1100 PSTL3KEEP
1101 PSTL3STRM
<Pg>

Is the name of the governing scalable predicate register P0-P7, encoded in the "Pg" field.

<Zn>

Is the name of the base scalable vector register, encoded in the "Zn" field.

<imm>

Is the optional unsigned immediate byte offset, in the range 0 to 31, defaulting to 0, encoded in the "imm5" field.

Operation

CheckNonStreamingSVEEnabled(); integer elements = VL DIV esize; bits(PL) mask = P[g]; bits(VL) base; if AnyActiveElement(mask, esize) then base = Z[n]; for e = 0 to elements-1 if ElemP[mask, e, esize] == '1' then bits(64) addr = ZeroExtend(Elem[base, e, esize], 64) + (offset << scale); Hint_Prefetch(addr, pref_hint, level, stream);


Internal version only: isa v33.11seprel, AdvSIMD v29.05, pseudocode v2021-09_rel, sve v2021-09_rc3d ; Build timestamp: 2021-10-06T11:41

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