diff --git a/include/jemalloc/internal/util.h b/include/jemalloc/internal/util.h
index cb751479..dcb1c0a5 100644
--- a/include/jemalloc/internal/util.h
+++ b/include/jemalloc/internal/util.h
@@ -69,6 +69,55 @@ util_assume(bool b) {
 	}
 }
 
+/* ptr should be valid. */
+JEMALLOC_ALWAYS_INLINE void
+util_prefetch_read(void *ptr) {
+	/*
+	 * This should arguably be a config check; but any version of GCC so old
+	 * that it doesn't support __builtin_prefetch is also too old to build
+	 * jemalloc.
+	 */
+#ifdef __GNUC__
+	if (config_debug) {
+		/* Enforce the "valid ptr" requirement. */
+		*(volatile char *)ptr;
+	}
+	__builtin_prefetch(ptr, /* read or write */ 0, /* locality hint */ 3);
+#else
+	*(volatile char *)ptr;
+#endif
+}
+
+JEMALLOC_ALWAYS_INLINE void
+util_prefetch_write(void *ptr) {
+#ifdef __GNUC__
+	if (config_debug) {
+		*(volatile char *)ptr;
+	}
+	/*
+	 * The only difference from the read variant is that this has a 1 as the
+	 * second argument (the write hint).
+	 */
+	__builtin_prefetch(ptr, 1, 3);
+#else
+	*(volatile char *)ptr;
+#endif
+}
+
+JEMALLOC_ALWAYS_INLINE void
+util_prefetch_read_range(void *ptr, size_t sz) {
+	for (size_t i = 0; i < sz; i += CACHELINE) {
+		util_prefetch_read((void *)((uintptr_t)ptr + i));
+	}
+}
+
+JEMALLOC_ALWAYS_INLINE void
+util_prefetch_write_range(void *ptr, size_t sz) {
+	for (size_t i = 0; i < sz; i += CACHELINE) {
+		util_prefetch_write((void *)((uintptr_t)ptr + i));
+	}
+}
+
 #undef UTIL_INLINE
 
 #endif /* JEMALLOC_INTERNAL_UTIL_H */
diff --git a/src/tcache.c b/src/tcache.c
index 635ba0b1..3daf4263 100644
--- a/src/tcache.c
+++ b/src/tcache.c
@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ tcache_bin_flush_metadata_visitor(void *szind_sum_ctx,
     emap_full_alloc_ctx_t *alloc_ctx) {
 	size_t *szind_sum = (size_t *)szind_sum_ctx;
 	*szind_sum -= alloc_ctx->szind;
+	util_prefetch_write_range(alloc_ctx->edata, sizeof(edata_t));
 }
 
 static void