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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016

Filed:

Apr. 11, 2013
Applicant:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

David A Kaplan, Austin, TX (US);

Daniel Hopper, Austin, TX (US);

Tarun Nakra, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30043 (2013.01); G06F 9/3826 (2013.01); G06F 9/3834 (2013.01); G06F 9/3838 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for allocating store queue entries to store instructions for early store-to-load forwarding. Some embodiments of the method include allocating an entry in a store queue to a store instruction in response to the store instruction being dispatched and prior to receiving a translation of a virtual address to a physical address associated with the store instruction. The entry includes storage for data to be written to the physical address by the store instruction.


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