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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2014
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rekai Gonzalez-Alberquilla, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, ES;
Tanausu Ramirez, Barcelona, ES;
Josep M. Codina, L'Hospitalet del Llobregat, ES;
Enric Gibert Codina, Barcelona, ES;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are described for improved thread selection. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: first logic to maintain a history table comprising a plurality of entries, each entry in the table associated with an instruction and including history data indicating prior hits and/or misses to a cache level and/or a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) for that instruction; and second logic to select a particular thread for execution at a particular processor pipeline stage based on the history data.