PREFETCHNT

Operation

Hint that EA will be read with non-temporal locality.

Assembler Syntax

PREFETCHNT <ea>(e)

Privilege

Unprivileged

Repeat eligibility

REP eligible

Computes the byte-addressed source without an architectural read and issues an optional non-temporal read-prefetch hint. Ignoring the hint has no architectural effect except under an explicitly configured prefetch-fault policy.

2.75in

Encodings

PREFETCHNT <ea>(e)

Format: Instruction format for PREFETCHNT <ea>(e)