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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2018
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Robert Pawlowski, Portland, OR (US);
Ankit More, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shaden Smith, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sowmya Pitchaimoorthy, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Samkit Jain, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Vincent Cavé, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sriram Aananthakrishnan, Portland, OR (US);
Jason M. Howard, Portland, OR (US);
Joshua B. Fryman, Corvallis, OR (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a first processor core includes: a plurality of execution pipelines each to execute instructions of one or more threads; a plurality of pipeline barrier circuits coupled to the plurality of execution pipelines, each of the plurality of pipeline barrier circuits associated with one of the plurality of execution pipelines to maintain status information for a plurality of barrier groups, each of the plurality of barrier groups formed of at least two threads; and a core barrier circuit to control operation of the plurality of pipeline barrier circuits and to inform the plurality of pipeline barrier circuits when a first barrier has been reached by a first barrier group of the plurality of barrier groups. Other embodiments are described and claimed.