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A53 preload mechanism

Hi,

I am reading the A53 MP Core doc.

My question is related to instruction preloading in aarch64.

In case of a very large block of code with no function calls, I want to make sure the L1 cache is always filled.

Question 1:  Will the PLI instruction first check L2 before trying to fetch from main memory?

Q2: is it a sustainable strategy to call the instruction multiple times at specified offsets? I should load far instructions in L2 first from main memory and then redo it later from L2 to L1?

Thanks