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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Khandker N. Adeeb, Austin, TX (US);
Joshua W. Bowman, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey C. Brownscheidle, Seattle, WA (US);
Brandon R. Goddard, Friendswood, TX (US);
Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Tu-An T. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Brian D. Victor, Austin, TX (US);
Brendan M. Wong, Beaumont, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Operation of a multi-slice processor that includes a plurality of execution slices. Operation of such a multi-slice processor includes: receiving a first instruction indicating a first target register; receiving a second instruction indicating the first target register as a source operand; responsive to the second instruction indicating the first target register as a source operand, updating a dependent count corresponding to the first instruction; and issuing, in dependence upon the dependent count for the first instruction being greater than a dependent count for another instruction, the first instruction to an execution slice of the plurality of execution slices.