Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Qualcomm Incorporated

Sandeep Kumar Dubey

Ravi Iyengar

Bradley Gene Burgess

Write buffer circuit supporting store release combining of store operations from a memory access stage of a processor instruction pipeline for efficient processing of store release instructions, and related methods. The write buffer circuit is interfaced with an instruction pipeline of a processor to receive and commit (write data) executed store instructions to memory. The write buffer circuit allows launching of store release instructions from a store queue (STQ) to a write combining buffer (WCB) even if pending, older store instructions are not yet committed to non-cacheable memory. The write buffer circuit is configured to delay release of store release instructions from the WCB for their data to be written to non-cacheable memory until any pending, older store instructions have been committed. This facilitates combining of address related store-release instructions in the WCB that can be written to memory in a single write operation.

Write buffer circuit supporting store release combining of store operations from a memory access stage of a processor instruction pipeline for efficient processing of store release instructions, and related methods

A data processing method for a data processing system, comprising: initializing a value of a counter associated with a first entry to indicate a number of destinations of other entries on which the first entry depends; changing the value of the counter in a first direction in response to selecting a first one of the other entries; and changing the value of the counter in a second direction opposite the first direction in response to cancelling a second one of the other entries.

System and method to clear and rebuild dependencies

A method and apparatus for simultaneously canceling a dependent instruction and a nested dependent instruction when a cancel timer of a source of the dependent instruction and a cancel timer of a source of the nested dependent instruction expire and a producer instruction speculatively waking up the dependent instruction is canceled.

Efficient way to cancel speculative 'source ready' in scheduler for direct and nested dependent instructions

A data processing system and method of clearing and rebuilding dependencies, the data processing method including changing a counter associated with a first entry in response to selecting a second entry; comparing the counter with a threshold; and indicating that the first entry is ready to be selected in response to comparing the counter with the threshold; wherein the first entry is dependent on the second entry.

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Sandeep Kumar Dubey