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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 24, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Elizabeth A. McGlone, Rochester, MN (US);

Jennifer L. Molnar, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 13/362 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3851 (2013.01); G06F 9/30043 (2013.01); G06F 13/362 (2013.01);
Abstract

Operation of a multi-slice processor that includes a plurality of execution slices and a plurality of load/store slices, where the multi-slice processor is configured to dynamically cancel partial load operations by, among other steps, receiving a load instruction requesting multiple portions of data; receiving a load instruction requesting multiple portions of data; determining that a load of one portion of the requested multiple portions is unavailable to be issued; and responsive to determining that the load of the one portion of the requested multiple portions is unavailable to be issued, delaying issuance of the load instruction.


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