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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2010
Martin R. Karlsson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sherman H. Yip, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shailender Chaudhry, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin R. Karlsson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sherman H. Yip, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shailender Chaudhry, San Francisco, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
The described embodiments provide a system for executing instructions in a processor. In the described embodiments, upon detecting a return of input data for a deferred instruction while executing instructions in an execute-ahead mode, the processor determines whether a replay bit is set in a corresponding entry for the returned input data in a miss buffer. If the replay bit is set, the processor transitions to a deferred-execution mode to execute deferred instructions. Otherwise, the processor continues to execute instructions in the execute-ahead mode.