Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing – Dynamic instruction dependency checking – monitoring or... – Commitment control or register bypass
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-19
2006-09-19
Treat, William M. (Department: 2181)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing
Dynamic instruction dependency checking, monitoring or...
Commitment control or register bypass
Reexamination Certificate
active
07111154
ABSTRACT:
Embodiments of an apparatus, method, and system provide for no-operation instruction (“NOP”) folding such that information regarding the presence of a NOP instruction in the instruction stream is folded into a buffer entry for another instruction. Information regarding a target NOP instruction is thus maintained in a buffer entry associated with an instruction other than the target NOP instruction. For at least one embodiment, NOP information is folded into entries of a re-order buffer.
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Brekelbaum Edward A.
Grochowski Edward T.
Rupley Jeffrey P.
Bacon Shireen I.
Intel Corporation
Treat William M.
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