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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Kenneth L. Ward, Austin, TX (US);
Susan E. Eisen, Round Rock, TX (US);
Glenn O. Kincaid, Austin, TX (US);
Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Deepak K. Singh, Raleigh, NC (US);
Gaurav Mittal, Round Rock, TX (US);
Christopher M. Mueller, Round Rock, TX (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer processing system are provided. The method includes processing, by a superscalar processing pipeline, respective sets of instructions in respective instruction processing cycles using an Instruction Completion Table (ICT) with a Ready-To-Complete (RTC) vector. The ICT includes a plurality of entries, each corresponding to a respective one of the instructions. A Next-To-Complete (NTC) instruction from among the respective sets of instructions is computed using the RTC vector.