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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bryan Lloyd, Austin, TX (US);
Brian D. Barrick, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Kurt A. Feiste, Austin, TX (US);
Hung Q. Le, Austin, TX (US);
Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Kenneth L. Ward, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer system, processor, and method for processing information is disclosed that includes a Dispatch Unit for dispatching instructions; an Issue Queue for receiving instructions dispatched from the Dispatch Unit; and a queue for receiving instructions issued from the Issue Queue, the queue having a plurality of entry locations for storing data. In an embodiment instructions are dispatched with a virtual indicator, and the virtual indicator is set to a first mode for instructions dispatched where an entry location is available, and to a second mode where an entry location is not available, in the queue to receive the dispatched instruction. In addition to virtual tagging dispatched instructions, a system, processor, and method are disclosed for regional partitioning of queues, region based deallocation of queue entries, and circular thread based assignment of queue entries.