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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 03, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jeffrey C. Brownscheidle, Seattle, WA (US);

Sundeep Chadha, Austin, TX (US);

Maureen A. Delaney, Richmond, VT (US);

Dhivya Jeganathan, Austin, TX (US);

Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);

Salim A. Shah, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3836 (2013.01); G06F 9/30189 (2013.01); G06F 9/3861 (2013.01); G06F 9/3891 (2013.01); G06F 9/3838 (2013.01); G06F 9/3851 (2013.01); G06F 9/3855 (2013.01); G06F 9/3865 (2013.01); G06F 9/3867 (2013.01); G06F 9/3885 (2013.01);
Abstract

Operation of a multi-slice processor that includes execution slices implementing dynamic switching of instruction issuance order. Such a multi-slice processor includes determining a current issuance order for a plurality of instructions and a change in an operating condition of the multi-slice processor; responsive to determining the change in the operating condition, determining an alternate issuance order for the plurality of instructions; and responsive to determining the alternate issuance order, switching from the current issuance order for the plurality of instructions to the alternate issuance order for the plurality of instructions.


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