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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
May. 06, 2015
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, KY;
Abstract
Detecting data dependencies of instructions associated with threads in a simultaneous multithreading (SMT) scheme is disclosed, including: dividing a plurality of comparators of an SMT-enabled device into groups of comparators corresponding to respective ones of threads associated with the SMT-enabled device; simultaneously distributing a first set of instructions associated with a first thread of the plurality of threads to a corresponding first group of comparators from the plurality of groups of comparators and distributing a second set of instructions associated with a second thread of the plurality of threads to a corresponding second group of comparators from the plurality of groups of comparators; and simultaneously performing data dependency detection on the first set of instructions associated with the first thread using the corresponding first group of comparators and performing data dependency detection on the second set of instructions associated with the second thread using the corresponding second group of comparators.