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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2017
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jaewoong Chung, Bellevue, WA (US);
David S. Christie, Austin, TX (US);
Michael P. Hohmuth, Dresden, DE;
Stephan Diestelhorst, Dresden, DE;
Martin Pohlack, Dresden, DE;
Luke Yen, Boxborough, MA (US);
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A processing core of a plurality of processing cores is configured to execute a speculative region of code a single atomic memory transaction with respect one or more others of the plurality of processing cores. In response to determining an abort condition for issued one of the plurality of program instructions and in response to determining that the issued program instruction is not part of a mispredicted execution path, the processing core is configured to abort an attempt to execute the speculative region of code.