Abstract:
A hardware/software co-design for an optimized dynamic out-of-order Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) pipeline. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: an instruction fetch unit to fetch Very Long Instruction Words (VLIWs) in their program order from memory, each of the VLIWs comprising a plurality of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction syllables grouped into the VLIWs in an order which removes data-flow dependencies and false output dependencies between the syllables; a decode unit to decode the VLIWs in their program order and output the syllables of each decoded VLIW in parallel; and an out-of-order execution engine to execute the syllables preferably in parallel with other syllables, wherein at least some of the syllables are to be executed in a different order than the order in which they are received from the decode unit, the out-of-order execution engine having one or more processing stages which do not check for data-flow dependencies and false output dependencies between the syllables when performing operations.
Abstract:
A processor includes a front end, a decoder, an allocator, and a retirement unit. The decoder includes logic to identify an end-of-live-range (EOLR) indicator. The EOLR indicator specifies an architectural register and a location in code for which the architectural register is unused. The allocator includes logic to scan for a mapping of the architectural register to a physical register, based upon the EOLR indicator. The allocator also includes logic to generate a request to disassociate the architectural register from the physical register. The retirement unit includes logic to disassociate the architectural register from the physical register.
Abstract:
Various different embodiments of the invention are described including: (1) a method and apparatus for intelligently allocating threads within a binary translation system; (2) data cache way prediction guided by binary translation code morphing software; (3) fast interpreter hardware support on the data-side; (4) out-of-order retirement; (5) decoupled load retirement in an atomic OOO processor; (6) handling transactional and atomic memory in an out-of-order binary translation based processor; and (7) speculative memory management in a binary translation based out of order processor.
Abstract:
A processor includes a front end, a decoder, an allocator, and a retirement unit. The decoder includes logic to identify an end-of-live-range (EOLR) indicator. The EOLR indicator specifies an architectural register and a location in code for which the architectural register is unused. The allocator includes logic to scan for a mapping of the architectural register to a physical register, based upon the EOLR indicator. The allocator also includes logic to generate a request to disassociate the architectural register from the physical register. The retirement unit includes logic to disassociate the architectural register from the physical register.
Abstract:
A processor includes allocation unit with logic to receive a logical move instruction. The logical move instruction includes a source logical register as a source parameter and a destination logical register as a destination parameter. The source logical register is assigned to a source physical register and the destination logical register is assigned to a destination physical register. The allocation unit includes logic to assign a first value of the source logical register to the destination logical register and to maintain a second value of the destination physical register before and after the assignment of the first value to the destination logical register.
Abstract:
A processor includes a processor core including an execution unit to execute instructions, and a cache memory. The cache memory includes a controller to update each of a plurality of stale indicators in response to a lazy flush instruction. Each stale indicator is associated with respective data, and each updated stale indicator is to indicate that the respective data is stale. The cache memory also includes a plurality of cache lines. Each cache line is to store corresponding data and a foreground tag that includes a respective virtual address associated with the corresponding data, and that includes the associated stale indicator. Other embodiments are described as claimed.
Abstract:
A processor includes a processor core to execute a first translated instruction translated from a first instruction stored in first page of a memory. The processor also includes a translation indicator agent (XTBA) to store a first translation indicator that is read from a physical map (PhysMap) in the memory. In an embodiment, the first translation indicator is to indicate whether the first page has been modified after the first instruction is translated. Other embodiments are described as claimed.
Abstract:
A hardware/software co-design for an optimized dynamic out-of-order Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) pipeline. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: an instruction fetch unit to fetch Very Long Instruction Words (VLIWs) in their program order from memory, each of the VLIWs comprising a plurality of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction syllables grouped into the VLIWs in an order which removes data-flow dependencies and false output dependencies between the syllables; a decode unit to decode the VLIWs in their program order and output the syllables of each decoded VLIW in parallel; and an out-of-order execution engine to execute the syllables preferably in parallel with other syllables, wherein at least some of the syllables are to be executed in a different order than the order in which they are received from the decode unit, the out-of-order execution engine having one or more processing stages which do not check for data-flow dependencies and false output dependencies between the syllables when performing operations.