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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2018
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Saurabh Gupta, Bengaluru, IN;
Niranjan Soundararajan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ragavendra Natarajan, Mysore, IN;
Jared Warner Stark, IV, Portland, OR (US);
Lihu Rappoport, Haifa, IL;
Sreenivas Subramoney, Bangalore, IN;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a context-based prediction circuit to receive an instruction address for a branch instruction and a plurality of predictions associated with the branch instruction from a global prediction circuit. The context-based prediction circuit may include: a table having a plurality of entries each to store a context prediction value for a corresponding branch instruction; and a control circuit to generate, for the branch instruction, an index value to index into the table, the control circuit to generate the index value based at least in part on at least some of the plurality of predictions associated with the branch instruction and the instruction address for the branch instruction. Other embodiments are described and claimed.