System, apparatus and method for program order queue (POQ) to manage data dependencies in processor having multiple instruction queues

    公开(公告)号:US11243775B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-08

    申请号:US16364688

    申请日:2019-03-26

    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a plurality of registers; a first instruction queue to store first instructions; a second instruction queue to store second instructions; a program order queue having a plurality of portions each associated with one of the plurality of registers, each of the portions having entries to store a state of an instruction, the state comprising an encoding of a use of the register by the instruction and a source instruction queue for the instruction; and a dispatcher to dispatch for execution the first and second instructions from the first and second instruction queues based at least in part on information stored in the program order queue, to manage instruction dependencies between the first instructions and the second instructions. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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