The classic: http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf Look at 6.3.2 for software prefetching. Like the rest of

The classic: http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf Look at 6.3.2 for software prefetching. Like the rest of the paper it's very x86 centric but most of the concepts apply to other architectures.