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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2010
Sherman H. Yip, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Paul Caprioli, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sherman H. Yip, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Paul Caprioli, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques and structures are disclosed for a processor supporting checkpointing to operate effectively in scouting mode while a maximum number of supported checkpoints are active. Operation in scouting mode may include using bypass logic and a set of register storage locations to store and/or forward in-flight instruction results that were calculated during scouting mode. These forwarded results may be used during scouting mode to calculate memory load addresses for yet other in-flight instructions, and the processor may accordingly cause data to be prefetched from these calculated memory load addresses. The set of register storage locations may comprise a working register file or an active portion of a multiported register file.