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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2007
Michael Karl Gschwind, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Robert Alan Philhower, Valley Cottage, NY (US);
Raymond Cheung Yeung, Round Rock, TX (US);
Michael Karl Gschwind, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Robert Alan Philhower, Valley Cottage, NY (US);
Raymond Cheung Yeung, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An information handling system includes a processor that throttles an instruction fetcher whenever a group of instructions in a branch instruction queue together exhibits a confidence in the accuracy of branch predictions of branch instructions therein that is less than a first predetermined threshold confidence threshold. In one embodiment, the processor includes a fetch throttle controller that inhibits fetch throttling by the instruction fetcher when confidence in the accuracy of a branch prediction for a particular currently issued branch instruction exhibits less than a second predetermined threshold confidence threshold.