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Cyclone: A Broadcast-Free Dynamic Instruction Scheduler with Selective Replay

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Cyclone: A Broadcast-Free Dynamic Instruction Scheduler with Selective Replay
To achieve high instruction throughput, instruction schedulers must be capable of producing high-quality schedules that maximize functional unit utilization while at the same time enabling fast instruction issue logic. Many solutions exist to the scheduling problem, ranging from compile-time to run-time approaches. Compile-time solutions feature fast and simple hardware, but at the expense of conservative schedules. Dynamic schedulers produce high-quality schedules that incorporate run-time information and dependence speculation, but implementing these schedulers requires complex circuits that can slow processor clock speeds. In this paper, we present the Cyclone scheduler, a novel design that captures the benefits of both compileand run-time scheduling. Our approach utilizes a listbased single-pass instruction scheduling algorithm, implemented by hardware at run-time in the front end of the processor pipeline. Once scheduled, instructions are injected into a timed queue that orchestr...
Dan Ernst, Andrew Hamel, Todd M. Austin
Added 04 Jul 2010
Updated 04 Jul 2010
Type Conference
Year 2003
Where ISCA
Authors Dan Ernst, Andrew Hamel, Todd M. Austin
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