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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2019
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Adarsh Chauhan, Bengaluru, IN;
Franck Sala, Haifa, IL;
Jayesh Gaur, Bangalore, IN;
Zeev Sperber, Zichron Yackov, IL;
Lihu Rappoport, Haifa, IL;
Adi Yoaz, Hof HaCarmel, IL;
Sreenivas Subramoney, Bangalore, IN;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to hardware for auto-predication of critical branches. In one embodiment, a processor core includes a decoder to decode instructions into decoded instructions, an execution unit to execute the decoded instructions, a branch predictor circuit to predict a future outcome of a branch instruction, and a branch predication manager circuit to disable use of the predicted future outcome for a conditional critical branch comprising the branch instruction.