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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2020
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ashok Tirupathy Venkatachar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Steven R. Havlir, Austin, TX (US);
Robert B. Cohen, Austin, TX (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for performing instruction fetch operations are provided. The techniques include determining instruction addresses for a primary branch prediction path; requesting that a level 0 translation lookaside buffer ('TLB') caches address translations for the primary branch prediction path; determining either or both of alternate control flow path instruction addresses and lookahead control flow path instruction addresses; and requesting that either the level 0 TLB or an alternative level TLB caches address translations for either or both of the alternate control flow path instruction addresses and the lookahead control flow path instruction addresses.