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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2016
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alexander Y. Ostanevich, Moscow, RU;
Jayesh Iyer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sergey P. Scherbinin, Obninsk, RU;
Dmitry M. Maslennikov, Moscow, RU;
Denis G. Motin, Moscow, RU;
Alexander V. Ermolovich, Moscow, RU;
Andrey Chudnovets, Moscow, RU;
Sergey A. Rozhkov, San Jose, CA (US);
Boris A. Babayan, Moscow, RU;
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes a first circuit to determine a real program order (RPO) of an eldest undispatched instruction from among a plurality of strands, a second circuit to determine an RPO limit based on a delta value and the RPO of the eldest undispatched instruction, an ordering buffer to store entries for instructions that are waiting to be retired, and a third circuit to execute an orderable instruction from a strand from the plurality of strands to cause an entry for the orderable instruction to be inserted into the ordering buffer in response to a determination that an RPO of the orderable instruction is less than or equal to the RPO limit.