Invention Application
- Patent Title: COPROCESSOR FOR OUT-OF-ORDER LOADS
- Patent Title (中): 用于不合适的负载的共同控制器
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Application No.: US14499044Application Date: 2014-09-26
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Publication No.: US20160092238A1Publication Date: 2016-03-31
- Inventor: Lucian CODRESCU , Christopher Edward KOOB , Eric Wayne MAHURIN , Suresh Kumar VENKUMAHANTI
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Main IPC: G06F9/38
- IPC: G06F9/38

Abstract:
Systems and methods for implementing certain load instructions, such as vector load instructions by cooperation of a main processor and a coprocessor. The load instructions which are identified by the main processor for offloading to the coprocessor are committed in the main processor without receiving corresponding load data. Post-commit, the load instructions are processed in the coprocessor, such that latencies incurred in fetching the load data are hidden from the main processor. By implementing an out-of-order load data buffer associated with an in-order instruction buffer, the coprocessor is also configured to avoid stalls due to long latencies which may be involved in fetching the load data from levels of memory hierarchy, such as L2, L3, L4 caches, main memory, etc.
Public/Granted literature
- US09678758B2 Coprocessor for out-of-order loads Public/Granted day:2017-06-13
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