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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2004
Brian David Barrick, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Kimberly Marie Fensler, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dwain Alan Hicks, Pflugerville, TX (US);
David Scott Ray, Georgetown, TX (US);
David Shippy, Austin, TX (US);
Takeki Osanai, Austin, TX (US);
Brian David Barrick, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Kimberly Marie Fensler, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dwain Alan Hicks, Pflugerville, TX (US);
David Scott Ray, Georgetown, TX (US);
David Shippy, Austin, TX (US);
Takeki Osanai, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides for a method for a load address dependency mechanism in a high frequency, low power processor. A load instruction corresponding to a memory address is received. At least one unexecuted preceding instruction corresponding to the memory address is identified. The load instruction is stored in a miss queue. And the load instruction is tagged as a local miss.