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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2010
Morris Marden, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Matthew Merten, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Alexandre Farcy, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Avinash Sodani, Portland, OR (US);
James Hadley, Portland, OR (US);
Ilhyun Kim, Beaverton, OR (US);
Morris Marden, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Matthew Merten, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Alexandre Farcy, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Avinash Sodani, Portland, OR (US);
James Hadley, Portland, OR (US);
Ilhyun Kim, Beaverton, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing fairness in a multi-processing element environment is herein described. Mask elements are utilized to associated portions of a reservation station with each processing element, while still allowing common access to another portion of reservation station entries. Additionally, bias logic biases selection of processing elements in a pipeline away from a processing element associated with a blocking stall to provide fair utilization of the pipeline.