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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2010
Martin Karlsson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sherman H. Yip, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shailender Chaudhry, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin Karlsson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sherman H. Yip, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shailender Chaudhry, San Francisco, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed relating to reducing the latency of restarting a pipeline in a processor that implements scouting. In one embodiment, the processor may reduce pipeline restart latency using two instruction fetch units that are configured to fetch and re-fetch instructions in parallel with one another. In some embodiments, the processor may reduce pipeline restart latency by initiating re-fetching instructions in response to determining that a commit operation is to be attempted with respect to one or more deferred instructions. In other embodiments, the processor may reduce pipeline restart latency by initiating re-fetching instructions in response to receiving an indication that a request for a set of data has been received by a cache, where the indication is sent by the cache before determining whether the data is present in the cache or not.