Abstract: An apparatus performs source operand dependency analysis, perform register renaming and provide rapid pipeline recovery for a microprocessor capable of issuing and executing multiple instructions out-of-order in a single machine cycle. The apparatus first provides an enhanced means for rapid pipeline recovery due to a mispredicted branch or other store/load conflict or unsupported store/load forward circumstances. Second, the apparatus provides an improved instruction scheduling means wherein the oldest instructions that have all of their dependencies resolved are executed first. Third, the apparatus provides a means for enabling any execution or memory access instruction to execute out-of-order. Fourth, the apparatus provides a means for handling precise recovery of interrupts when processing instructions in out-of-order sequence.

Abstract: An apparatus to dynamically controls the out-of-order execution of load/store instructions by detecting a store violation condition and avoiding the penalty of a pipeline recovery process. The apparatus permits a load and store instruction to issue and execute out of order and incorporates a unique store barrier cache which is used to dynamically predict whether or not a store violation condition is likely to occur and, if so, to restrict the issue of instructions to the load/store unit until the store instruction has been executed and it is once again safe to proceed with out-of-order execution. The method implemented by the apparatus delivers performance within one percent of theoretically possible with apriori knowledge of load and store addresses.

Abstract: An apparatus performs source operand dependency analysis, perform register renaming and provide rapid pipeline recovery for a microprocessor capable of issuing and executing multiple instructions out-of-order in a single machine cycle. The apparatus first provides an enhanced means for rapid pipeline recovery due to a mispredicted branch or other store/load conflict or unsupported store/load forward circumstances. Second, the apparatus provides an improved instruction scheduling means wherein the oldest instructions that have all of their dependencies resolved are executed first. Third, the apparatus provides a means for enabling any execution or memory access instruction to execute out-of-order. Fourth, the apparatus provides a means for handling precise recovery of interrupts when processing instructions in out-of-order sequence.

Abstract: An apparatus to dynamically controls the out-of-order execution of load/store instructions by detecting a store violation condition and avoiding the penalty of a pipeline recovery process. The apparatus permits a load and store instruction to issue and execute out of order and incorporates a unique store barrier cache which is used to dynamically predict whether or not a store violation condition is likely to occur and, if so, to restrict the issue of instructions to the load/store unit until the store instruction has been executed and it is once again safe to proceed with out-of-order execution. The method implemented by the apparatus delivers performance within one percent of theoretically possible with apriori knowledge of load and store addresses.