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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2007
Robert H. Bell, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Louis Bennie Capps, Jr., Georgetown, TX (US);
Michael A. Paolini, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Jay Shapiro, Austin, TX (US);
Robert H. Bell, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Louis Bennie Capps, Jr., Georgetown, TX (US);
Michael A. Paolini, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Jay Shapiro, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for speculatively executing a single threaded program within a multi-core processor which includes identifying an idle core within the multi-core processor, performing a look ahead operation on the single thread instructions to identify speculative instructions within the single thread instructions, and allocating the idle core to execute the speculative instructions.