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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Sundeep Chadha, Austin, TX (US);
David A. Hrusecky, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Elizabeth A. McGlone, Rochester, MN (US);
Jennifer L. Molnar, Cedar Park, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Operation of a multi-slice processor that includes a plurality of execution slices, a plurality of load/store slices, and an instruction sequencing unit, where operation includes: receiving, at a load/store slice, a load instruction to be issued; determining, at the load/store slice, that the load instruction has not completed and is to be reissued; and responsive to determining that the load instruction is to be reissued, delaying a signal, from the load/store slice to the instruction sequencing unit, that allows the instruction sequencing unit to issue one or more instructions dependent upon the load instruction.