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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Brian D. Barrick, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Sundeep Chadha, Austin, TX (US);
Maureen A. Delaney, Richmond, VT (US);
Thao T. Doan, Austin, TX (US);
Michael J. Genden, Austin, TX (US);
Rokesh Jayasundar, Austin, TX (US);
Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
David R. Terry, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Operation of a multi-slice processor including execution slices and load/store slices, where the load/store slices are coupled to the execution slices via a results bus and the results bus includes segments assigned to carry results of a different instruction type, includes: receiving a producer instruction that includes an identifier of an instruction type and an identifier of the producer instruction, including storing the identifier of the instruction type and the identifier of the producer instruction in an entry of a register; receiving a source instruction dependent upon the result of the producer instruction including storing, in an issue queue, the source instruction, the identifier of the instruction type of the producer instruction, and an identifier of the producer instruction; and snooping the identifier of the producer instruction only from the segment of the results bus assigned to carry results of the instruction type of the producer instruction.