Characteristics of Some CISCs, RISCs, and Superscalar Processors One of the most visible forms of evolution associated with computers is that of pro-gramming languages. As the cost of hardware has dropped, the relative cost of soft-ware has risen. Al…

Executing a Next Instruction Access Intent instruction by a computer. The processor obtains an access intent instruction indicating an access intent. The access intent is associated with an operand of a next sequential instruction. The access intent…

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an instruction for decoding in a processor core and dynamically handling the instruction with one of multiple behaviors based on whether contention is predicted. If no contention is predicted, the instru…

A data processor (104) is described. The data processor (104) is capable of decoding and executing a first instruction (212) of a first instruction set and a second instruction (213-219) in a second instruction set wherein the first instruction (212)…

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE DESIGNING FOR PERFORMANCE NINTH EDITION In this section, we look at some of the general characteristics of and the motivation for a reduced instruction set architecture. Specific examples will be seen later in t…

0.1 TopicNotes of Lin C., Snyder L.. Principles of Parallel Programming. Beijing: China Machine Press. 2008. (1) Parallel Computer Architecture - done 2015/5/24(2) Parallel Abstraction - done 2015/5/28(3) Scable Algorithm Techniques - done 2015/5/30(…

A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for reliable asynchronous solid-state device based de-duplication. Responsive to receiving a write request to write data to the file system, the mechanism sends the write request to the file system,…

A technique is provided for generating stubs. A processing circuit receives a call to a called function. The processing circuit retrieves a called function property of the called function. The processing circuit generates a stub for the called functi…

A speculative store buffer is speculatively updated in response to speculative store memory operations buffered by a load/store unit in a microprocessor. Instead of performing dependency checking for load memory operations among the store memory oper…

A multiprocessing system having a plurality of processing nodes interconnected by an interconnect network. To optimize performance during spin-lock operations, a home agent prioritizes the servicing of read-to-own (RTO) transaction requests over the…