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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Salvador Palanca, Folsom, CA (US);
Shekoufeh Qawami, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Niranjan L. Cooray, Folsom, CA (US);
Angad Narang, Rancho Cordova, CA (US);
Subramaniam Maiyuran, Fair Oaks, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 ;
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for implementing a senior load instruction type. An instruction requesting a memory reference is decoded. The decoded instruction is then dispatched to a memory ordering unit. The instruction is retired from a load buffer and is executed after retiring.