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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2014
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mohammad Abdallah, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Ankur Groen, San Jose, CA (US);
Erika Gunadi, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Mandeep Singh, Union City, CA (US);
Ravishankar Rao, Redwood City, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods for supporting wide and efficient front-end operation with guest architecture emulation are disclosed. As a part of a method for supporting wide and efficient front-end operation, upon receiving a request to fetch a first far taken branch instruction, a cache line that includes the first far taken branch instruction, a next cache line and a cache line located at the target of the first far taken branch instruction is read. Based on information that is accessed from a data table, the cache line and either the next cache line or the cache line located at the target is fetched in a single cycle.