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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2013
Applicant:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Francesco Spadini, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Achenbach, 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 9/3834 (2013.01); G06F 9/384 (2013.01); G06F 9/3836 (2013.01); G06F 9/3838 (2013.01); G06F 9/3842 (2013.01); G06F 9/3861 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes suppressing execution of at least one dependent instruction of a load instruction by a processor using stored dependency information responsive to an invalid status of the load instruction. A processor includes an execution unit to execute instructions and a scheduler. The scheduler is to select for execution in the execution unit a load instruction having at least one dependent instruction and suppress execution of the at least one dependent instruction using stored dependency information responsive to an invalid status of the load instruction.