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Patent No.:

US 8533436 B1

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Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013

Filed:

Jun. 26, 2009
Applicants:

Joshua B. Fryman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Edward T. Grochowski, San Jose, CA (US);

Toni Juan, Barcelona, ES;

Andrew Thomas Forsyth, Kirkland, WA (US);

John Mejia, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Ramacharan Sundararaman, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Eric Sprangle, Austin, TX (US);

Roger Espasa, Barcelona, ES;

Ravi Rajwar, Portland, OR (US);

Inventors:

Joshua B. Fryman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Edward T. Grochowski, San Jose, CA (US);

Toni Juan, Barcelona, ES;

Andrew Thomas Forsyth, Kirkland, WA (US);

John Mejia, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Ramacharan Sundararaman, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Eric Sprangle, Austin, TX (US);

Roger Espasa, Barcelona, ES;

Ravi Rajwar, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an instruction for decoding in a processor core and dynamically handling the instruction with one of multiple behaviors based on whether contention is predicted. If no contention is predicted, the instruction is executed in the core, and if contention is predicted data associated with the instruction is marshaled and sent to a selected remote agent for execution. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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