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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Kenneth L. Ward, Austin, TX (US);
Susan E. Eisen, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Glenn O. Kincaid, Austin, TX (US);
Joe Lee, Round Rock, TX (US);
Deepak K. Singh, Apex, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for a completion mechanism for a microprocessor are provided by identifying entries in a section of an Instruction Completion Table (ICT) that are marked as ready to complete via corresponding Ready to Complete (RTC) status bits; determining a tail pointer indicating a start of the entries in the ICT that are ready for completion; determining a head pointer that indicates an end of the entries in the ICT that are ready for completion; completing instructions included in the entries between the tail pointer and the head pointer; and updating the tail pointer to a value of the head pointer for a subsequent instruction completion round.