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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2021
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anant Vithal Nori, Bangalore, IN;
Prathmesh Kallurkar, Bangalore, IN;
Sreenivas Subramoney, Bangalore, IN;
Niranjan Kumar Soundararajan, Bengaluru, IN;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus relating to throttling a code fetch for speculative code paths are described. In an embodiment, a first storage structure stores a reference to a code line in response to a request to be received from a cache. A second storage structure to store a reference to the code line in response to an update to an Instruction Dispatch Queue (IDQ). Logic circuitry controls additional code line fetch operations based at least in part on a comparison of a number of ongoing speculative code fetches and a determination that the code line is speculative. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.