Mechanism for predicting and suppressing instruction replay in a processor

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7861066
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11780684

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A mechanism for suppressing instruction replay includes a processor having one or more execution units and a scheduler that issue instruction operations for execution by the one or more execution units. The scheduler may also cause instruction operations that are determined to be incorrectly executed to be replayed, or reissued. In addition, a prediction unit within the processor may predict whether a given instruction operation will replay and to provide an indication that the given instruction operation will replay. The processor also includes a decode unit that may decode instructions and in response to detecting the indication, may flag the given instruction operation. The scheduler may further inhibit issue of the flagged instruction operation until a status associated with the flagged instruction is good.

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  • ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Butler, Michael G San Jose, US 15 951
Dhodapkar, Ashutosh S Fremont, US 4 318
Shen, Gene W San Jose, US 21 2607

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