High performance speculative misaligned load operations
CA 2260308 C · Owner: Tung, Shih-Hsiung Stephen · Inventors: Ray, David Scott; Williamson, Barry Duane; Tung, Shih-Hsiung Stephen
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One aspect of the invention relates to a method for processing load instructions in a superscalar, processor having a data cache and a register file. In one embodiment the , method includes the steps, of dispatching a misaligned load instruction to access a block of data that is misaligned in the cache;, while continuing to dispatch aligned instructions: generating a first access and a final access to the, cache in response to the misaligned load instruction; storing data retrieved from the first access until, data from the final access is available; reassembling the data from the first and final access into the, order required by the load instruction; and storing the re-assembled data …
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