On Nehalem : Bit 1 L2 Prefetcher Bit 2 L2 Adjacent Cache line Bit 3 L1 DCU next cache line Bit 4 L1 IP based prefetcher This is confirmed for Sandy Bridge in Table 2-20, which is supported by most processors of later generation (up to KabyLake at least) For strides, consider f, e and 7