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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Steven J. Battle, Austin, TX (US);
Owen Chiang, Austin, TX (US);
Sam G. Chu, Round Rock, TX (US);
Saiful Islam, Austin, TX (US);
Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
David R. Terry, Austin, TX (US);
Eula A. Tolentino, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Reducing power consumption in a multi-slice computer processor that includes a re-order buffer and an architected register file, including: designating an entry in the re-order buffer as being invalid and unwritten; assigning a pending instruction to the entry in the re-order buffer; responsive to assigning the pending instruction to the entry in the re-order buffer, designating the entry as being valid; writing data generated by executing the pending instruction into the re-order buffer; and responsive to writing data generated by executing the pending instruction into the re-order buffer, designating the entry as being written.