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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2015
Ramon Matas, Portland, OR (US);
Alexey P. Suprun, Beaverton, OR (US);
Roger Gramunt, Portland, OR (US);
Chung-lun Chan, Beaverton, OR (US);
Rammohan Padmanabhan, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ramon Matas, Portland, OR (US);
Alexey P. Suprun, Beaverton, OR (US);
Roger Gramunt, Portland, OR (US);
Chung-Lun Chan, Beaverton, OR (US);
Rammohan Padmanabhan, Beaverton, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for performing an efficient scatter operation. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: an allocator unit to receive a scatter operation comprising a number of data elements and responsively allocate resources to execute the scatter operation; a memory execution cluster comprising at least a portion of the resources to execute the scatter operation, the resources including one or more store data buffers and one or more store address buffers; and a senior store pipeline to transfer store data elements from the store data buffers to system memory using addresses from the store address buffers prior to retirement of the scatter operation.