Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080104325
Filing Date: October 26, 2006
Inventors: Charles Narad, Raj Yavatkar
Assignee(s): Intel
Current U.S. Classification: 711, 711/122000
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The apparatus defined in Claim 4 wherein the monitor agent monitors cache activity indicators to determine when to issue prefetch hints to cause an externally directed prefetch to move the data closer to the consumer agent.