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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Salma Ayub, Austin, TX (US);
Joshua W. Bowman, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey C. Brownscheidle, Seattle, WA (US);
Sundeep Chadha, Austin, TX (US);
Dhivya Jeganathan, Austin, TX (US);
Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Salim A. Shah, Austin, TX (US);
Brian W. Thompto, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for transmitting data between execution slices of a multi-slice processor including receiving, by an execution slice, a broadcast message comprising an instruction tag (ITAG) for a producer instruction, a latency, and a source identifier; determining that an issue queue in the execution slice comprises an ITAG for a consumer instruction, wherein the consumer instruction depends on result data from the producer instruction; calculating a cycle countdown using the latency and the source identifier; determining that the cycle countdown has expired; and in response to determining that the cycle countdown has expired, reading the result data from the producer instruction.