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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2021
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Brian W. Thompto, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Joseph Genden, Austin, TX (US);
Tharunachalam Pindicura, Austin, TX (US);
Phillip G. Williams, Cape Coral, FL (US);
Kent Li, Austin, TX (US);
Nir Segev, Emunim, IL;
Mehul Patel, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer system, processor, programming instructions and/or method for balancing the workload of processing pipelines that includes an execution slice, the execution slice comprising at least two processing pipelines having one or more execution units for processing instructions, wherein at least a first processing pipeline and a second processing pipeline are capable of executing a first instruction type; and an instruction decode unit for decoding instructions to determine which of the first processing pipeline or the second processing pipeline to execute the first instruction type. The processor configured to calculate at least one of a workload group consisting of: the first processing pipeline workload, the second processing pipeline workload, and combinations thereof; and select the first processing pipeline or the second processing pipeline to execute the first instruction type based upon at least one of the workload group.