Intel Corporation

Demos Pavlou

Fernando Latorre

Pedro Lopez

Mirem Hyuseinova

Grigorios Magklis

Pedro Marcuello

Polychronis Xekalakis

Kyriakos A Stavrou

Daniel Ortega

Marc Lupon

Raul Martinez

Josep M Codina

Carlos Madriles

Enric Gibert Codina

Georgios Tournavitis

Crispin Gomez Requena

Christos E Kotselidis

Antonio Gonzalez

Jaroslaw Topp

John H Kelm

Alejandro Martinez Vicente

Naveen Neelakantam

David Pardo Keppel

Joshua B Fryman

Javier Carretero Casado

Ethan Schuchman

Allan Douglas Knies

Patrick P Lai

Steffen Kosinski

Denis M Khartikov

Varun Mohandru

Juan Fernandez

Gregor Stellpflug

Thang Vu

Carlos Madriles Gimeno

Ralf Goettsche

Alejandro Vicente Martinez

Mirem Hyuseinova Seidahmedova

Antonio Gonzelez

Marti Torrents Lapuerta

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.

Apparatus and method for efficiently implementing a processor pipeline

A computer-readable storage medium, method and system for optimization-level aware branch prediction is described. A gear level is assigned to a set of application instructions that have been optimized. The gear level is also stored in a register of a branch prediction unit of a processor. Branch prediction is then performed by the processor based upon the gear level.

Instruction and logic for optimization level aware branch prediction

A combination of hardware and software collect profile data for asynchronous events, at code region granularity. An exemplary embodiment is directed to collecting metrics for prefetching events, which are asynchronous in nature. Instructions that belong to a code region are identified using one of several alternative techniques, causing a profile bit to be set for the instruction, as a marker. Each line of a data block that is prefetched is similarly marked. Events corresponding to the profile data being collected and resulting from instructions within the code region are then identified. Each time that one of the different types of events is identified, a corresponding counter is incremented. Following execution of the instructions within the code region, the profile data accumulated in the counters are collected, and the counters are reset for use with a new code region.

Propagating a prefetching profile bit from a prefetch queue to a data cache to indicate that a line was prefetched in response to an instruction within a code region

A processor includes a resource scheduler, a dispatcher, and a memory execution unit. The memory execution unit includes logic to identify an executed, unretired store operation in a memory ordered buffer, determine that the store operation is speculative, determine whether an associated cache line in a data cache is non-speculative, and determine whether to block a write of the store operation results to the data cache based upon the determination that the store operation is speculative and a determination that the associated cache line is non-speculative.

Instruction and logic for reducing data cache evictions in an out-of-order processor

Disclosed is an apparatus and method to manage instruction cache prefetching from an instruction cache. A processor may comprise: a prefetch engine; a branch prediction engine to predict the outcome of a branch; and dynamic optimizer. The dynamic optimizer may be used to control: identifying common instruction cache misses and inserting a prefetch instruction from the prefetch engine to the instruction cache.

Managed instruction cache prefetching

An image signal processor is described. The image signal processor includes a block checking circuit. The block checking circuit comprises comparison circuitry to compare a block of luminous pixel values against respective blocks of luminous pixel values that are processed by the image signal processor after the block of luminous pixel values. The block checking circuitry further comprises circuitry to record an entry in a table if one of the blocks of respective luminous pixel values match the block of luminous pixel values. The image signal processor is to store an image signal processing resultant of the block of luminous pixel values and present the stored resultant as a respective resultant for the one of the blocks of respective luminous pixel values if the one of the blocks of respective luminous pixel values matches the block of pixel values.

Image signal processor with a block checking circuit

A system and method for adaptive data prefetching in a processor enables adaptive modification of parameters associated with a prefetch operation. A stride pattern in successive addresses of a memory operation may be detected, including determining a stride length (L). Prefetching of memory operations may be based on a prefetch address determined from a base memory address, the stride length L, and a prefetch distance (D). A number of prefetch misses may be counted at a miss prefetch count (C). Based on the value of the miss prefetch count C, the prefetch distance D may be modified. As a result of adaptive modification of the prefetch distance D, an improved rate of cache hits may be realized.

Adaptive data prefetching

A processing device implementing stride-based translation lookaside buffer (TLB) prefetching with adaptive offset is disclosed. A processing device of the disclosure includes a data prefetcher to generate a data prefetch address based on a linear address, a stride, or a prefetch distance, the data prefetch address associated with a data prefetch request, and a TLB prefetch address computation component to generate a TLB prefetch address based on the linear address, the stride, the prefetch distance, or an adaptive offset. The processing device also includes a cross page detection component to determine that the data prefetch address or the TLB prefetch address cross a page boundary associated with the linear address, and cause a TLB prefetch request to be written to a TLB request queue, the TLB prefetch request for translation of an address of a linear page number (LPN) based on the data prefetch address or the TLB prefetch address.

Stride-based translation lookaside buffer (TLB) prefetching with adaptive offset

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