摘要:
A system, method and computer program product for sampling computer system performance data are provided. The system includes a sample buffer to store instrumentation data while capturing trace data in a trace array, where the instrumentation data enables measurement of computer system performance. The system further includes a sample interrupt generator to assert a sample interrupt indicating that the instrumentation data is available to read. The sample interrupt is asserted in response to storing the instrumentation data in the sample buffer.
摘要:
A processor including an architecture for limiting store operations includes: a data input and a cache input as inputs to data merge logic; a merge buffer for providing an output to an old data buffer, holding a copy of a memory location and two way communication with a new data buffer; compare logic for receiving old data from the old data buffer and new data from the new data buffer and comparing if the old data matches the new data, and if there is a match determining an existence of a silent store; and store data control logic for limiting store operations while the silent store exists. A method and a computer program product are provided.
摘要:
A pipelined processor includes circuitry adapted for store forwarding, including: for each store request, and while a write to one of a cache and a memory is pending; obtaining the most recent value for at least one block of data; merging store data from the store request with the block of data thus updating the block of data and forming a new most recent value and an updated complete block of data; and buffering the updated block of data into a store data queue; for each additional store request, where the additional store request requires at least one updated block of data: determining if store forwarding is appropriate for the additional store request on a block-by-block basis; if store forwarding is appropriate, selecting an appropriate block of data from the store data queue on a block-by-block basis; and forwarding the selected block of data to the additional store request.
摘要:
A system, method, and apparatus for enhancing reliability on scan-initialized latches that affect functionality in a digital design are provided. The system includes a group of latches that affect functionality in the digital design based on state values of the latches, where the latches are scan initialized. The system also includes a disable allowance latch (DAL) allocated to the group of latches, where the DAL is a scan-initialized latch. The system further includes a gating function outputting the state value of at least one of the latches in the group to a functional block in the digital design in response to the DAL being in an enabled state and blocking the gating function output in response to the DAL being in a disabled state.
摘要:
A system and method for avoiding deadlocks when performing storage updates in a multi-processor environment. The system includes a processor having a local cache, a store queue having a temporary buffer with capability to reject exclusive cross-interrogates (XI) while an interrogated cache line is owned exclusive and is to be stored, and a mechanism for performing a method. The method includes setting the processor into a slow mode. A current instruction that includes a data store having one or more target lines is received. The current instruction is executed, with the executing including storing results associated with the data store into the temporary buffer. The store queue is prevented from rejecting an exclusive XI corresponding to the target lines of the current instruction. Each target line is acquired with a status of exclusive ownership, and the contents from the temporary buffer are written to each target line after instruction completion.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for address translation in a system running multiple levels of virtual machines containing a hierarchically organized translation lookaside buffer comprising at least two linked hierarchical sub-units, a first sub-unit comprising a lookaside buffer for some higher level address translation levels, and the second sub-unit comprising a lookaside buffer for some lower level address translation levels, and said second sub-unit being arranged to store TLB index address information of the upper level sub-unit as tag information in its lower level TLB structure, comprising the steps of collecting intermediate address translation results on different virtual machine levels; and buffering the intermediate translation results in the translation lookaside buffer.
摘要:
A multiprocessor electronic circuit and an electronic data processing system comprising such circuit are disclosed for reducing the power consumption and the chip area consumption of a multiprocessor system having cryptographic functionality. In one embodiment, the multiprocessor electronic circuit comprises a plurality of processors, a single cryptographic processing unit that comprises a plurality of input/output buffer pairs and two cryptographic engines, a cipher engine and a hash engine, and associated control logic.
摘要:
A method is disclosed for selecting data in a computer system having a cache memory and a branch history table, where the method includes predicting an address corresponding to the data, selecting data at the predicted address in the cache memory, translating an address corresponding to the data, comparing the translated address with the predicted address, and if they are different, re-selecting data at the translated address in the cache memory and appending the translated address to the branch history table.
摘要:
Computer system having cache subsystem wherein demote requests are performed by the cache subsystem. Software indicates to hardware of a processing system that its storage modification to a particular cache line is done, and will not be doing any modification for the time being. With this indication, the processor actively releases its exclusive ownership by updating its line ownership from exclusive to read-only (or shared) in its own cache directory and in the storage controller (SC). By actively giving up the exclusive rights, another processor can immediately be given exclusive ownership to that said cache line without waiting on any processor's explicit cross invalidate acknowledgement. This invention also describes the hardware design needed to provide this support.
摘要:
Computer system having cache subsystem wherein demote requests are performed by the cache subsystem. Software indicates to hardware of a processing system that its storage modification to a particular cache line is done, and will not be doing any modification for the time being. With this indication, the processor actively releases its exclusive ownership by updating its line ownership from exclusive to read-only (or shared) in its own cache directory and in the storage controller (SC). By actively giving up the exclusive rights, another processor can immediately be given exclusive ownership to that said cache line without waiting on any processor's explicit cross invalidate acknowledgement. This invention also describes the hardware design needed to provide this support.