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Description
Zihintntl Extension Overview
The zihintntl extension introduces non-temporal locality hints through the NTL.* instruction family. These instructions advise the memory subsystem that the data accessed by subsequent load or store operations exhibits no temporal locality and thus should not be cached at specified levels. As hint instructions, their execution by the processor is optional.
Instruction Details:
NTL.P1
Description: Indicates that the target memory access lacks temporal locality within the capacity of the innermost level of private cache in the memory hierarchy.
Assembly Implementation: ADD x0, x0, x2
Machine Code Encoding:
31 25 24 20 19 15 14 12 11 11 7 6 0
┌─────────┬───────┬───────┬──────┬──────┬────────┐
│ 0000000 │ 00010 │ 00000 │ 000 │ 00000│ 0110011│
└─────────┴───────┴───────┴──────┴──────┴────────┘
NTL.PALL
Description: Indicates that the target memory access lacks temporal locality within the capacity of any level of private cache.
Assembly Implementation: ADD x0, x0, x3
Machine Code Encoding:
31 25 24 20 19 15 14 12 11 7 6 0
┌─────────┬───────┬───────┬──────┬──────┬────────┐
│ 0000000 │ 00011 │ 00000 │ 000 │ 00000│ 0110011│
└─────────┴───────┴───────┴──────┴──────┴────────┘
NTL.S1
Description: Indicates that the target memory access lacks temporal locality within the capacity of the innermost level of shared cache.
Assembly Implementation: ADD x0, x0, x4
Machine Code Encoding:
31 25 24 20 19 15 14 12 11 7 6 0
┌─────────┬───────┬───────┬──────┬──────┬────────┐
│ 0000000 │ 00100 │ 00000 │ 000 │ 00000│ 0110011│
└─────────┴───────┴───────┴──────┴──────┴────────┘
NTL.ALL
Description: Indicates that the target memory access lacks temporal locality within the capacity of any level of cache (both private and shared).
Assembly ImplementationAssembly Implementation: ADD x0, x0, x5
Machine Code Encoding:
31 25 24 20 19 15 14 12 11 7 6 0
┌─────────┬───────┬───────┬──────┬──────┬────────┐
│ 0000000 │ 00101 │ 00000 │ 000 │ 00000│ 0110011│
└─────────┴───────┴───────┴──────┴──────┴────────┘