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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Salma Ayub, Austin, TX (US);
Josh Bowman, Austin, TX (US);
Sundeep Chadha, Austin, TX (US);
Dhivya Jeganathan, Austin, TX (US);
Cliff Kucharski, Austin, TX (US);
Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Techniques disclosed herein describe a variable latency pipe for interleaving instruction tags in a processor. According to one embodiment presented herein, an instruction tag is associated with an instruction upon issue of the instruction from the issue queue. One of a plurality of positions in the latency pipe is determined. The pipe stores one or more instruction tags, each associated with a respective instruction. The pipe also stores the instruction tags in a respective position based on the latency of each respective instruction. The instruction tag is stored at the determined position in the pipe.