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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2001
Christopher A. Gomez, Cupertino, CA (US);
Wayne I. Yamamoto, Saratoga, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of optimizing speculative address load processing by a microprocessor includes identifying a speculative load, marking the speculative load, determining whether a miss occurs for the speculative load, and preventing use of the marked speculative load by the microprocessor if a miss occurs. A method of optimizing speculative address load processing by a microprocessor includes identifying a speculative load, marking the speculative load, inserting the marked speculative load into a load miss queue, determining whether a miss occurs for the speculative load, and preventing the load miss queue from committing the marked speculative load to cache if a miss occurs.