By: Axel (no.delete@this.spam.org), January 20, 2011 3:42 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
>My read of it is that the patent is focused on improving recovery from branch mispredicts
>and maybe holding small loops. The thing I'm curious about is how much you actually
>win by shaving 3-4 cycles from your pipeline on a misprediction caused restart....as
>opposed to something more generalized.
Why only 3-4 cycles ? There are 7 pipeline stages in the patent, that are bypassed by a RRC hit.
>and maybe holding small loops. The thing I'm curious about is how much you actually
>win by shaving 3-4 cycles from your pipeline on a misprediction caused restart....as
>opposed to something more generalized.
Why only 3-4 cycles ? There are 7 pipeline stages in the patent, that are bypassed by a RRC hit.
