Separate RS for ALU vs load/store

By: Wilco (Wilco.dijkstra.delete@this.ntlworld.com), December 14, 2018 1:51 pm
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anon.1 (abc.delete@this.def.com) on December 14, 2018 7:08 am wrote:
> Wilco (Wilco.dijkstra.delete@this.ntlworld.com) on December 14, 2018 3:41 am wrote:
> > anon.1 (abc.delete@this.def.com) on December 13, 2018 8:15 pm wrote:

> > > [1] unified meaning that the person could not figure out how it was partitioned, if at all. I suspect
> > > it is partitioned somehow, but it's not easy to make out from directed tests. I am not convinced that
> > > the ALU scheduler is unified either, but that seems hard to test, so it's at least symmetrical.
> >
> > It should be easy to test by having a long sequence of multiplies followed by
> > independent ALU ops that use a different port (eg. shift). If they fit in the
> > RS they execute in parallel, if not you get more sequential execution.
> >
> > Wilco
>
> Yeah, but if it's organized such that I have two physical queues but a mux at the end of the issue pick
> to ping-pong between them, it may not be that straightforward. I suspect that's what's happening. If you
> have two/four of a type (say generic ALU), you just put 2 on each and don't ping-pong. If you have only
> 1 port of a type, say MUL, alternate between queues. It's a guess based on some people's observation that
> intel's queues appear unified to software (which is not the same as saying they are unified).

In that case it's essentially one big issue queue where ports only check half the entries every cycle to save power. This kind of setup would be hard to measure indeed, but you can figure out whether ports are split into a fixed partition.

Wilco
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      You can do two 4-cycle loads per cycleanon2018/09/18 11:53 AM
        You can do two 4-cycle loads per cycleTravis Downs2018/09/18 12:29 PM
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                      You can do two 4-cycle loads per cycleanon2018/09/20 04:35 AM
                      You can do two 4-cycle loads per cycleTravis Downs2018/09/20 03:33 PM
                    You can do two 4-cycle loads per cycleTravis Downs2018/09/20 03:10 PM
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              You can do two 4-cycle loads per cycleGabriele Svelto2018/09/19 01:39 AM
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                    You can do two 4-cycle loads per cycleTravis Downs2018/09/20 07:27 PM
                      You can do two 4-cycle loads per cycleanon2018/09/21 08:08 AM
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              Separate RS for ALU vs load/storeanon2018/12/13 02:14 PM
              Separate RS for ALU vs load/storeanon.12018/12/13 09:15 PM
                Separate RS for ALU vs load/storeWilco2018/12/14 04:41 AM
                  Separate RS for ALU vs load/storeanon.12018/12/14 08:08 AM
                    Separate RS for ALU vs load/storeWilco2018/12/14 01:51 PM
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                Integer divide also var latencyTravis Downs2018/12/14 09:09 PM
              Separate RS for ALU vs load/storeanon22018/12/14 09:57 PM
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