Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Suppressing branch prediction on a repeated execution of an aborted transaction
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Application No.: US16379298Application Date: 2019-04-09
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Publication No.: US10936314B2Publication Date: 2021-03-02
- Inventor: Michael K. Gschwind , Valentina Salapura , Chung-Lung Shum
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.
- Agent Steven Chiu, Esq.; Blanche E. Schiller, Esq.
- Main IPC: G06F9/38
- IPC: G06F9/38 ; G06F9/52 ; G06F9/30 ; G06F9/46
Abstract:
Branch prediction is suppressed for branch instructions executing in a transaction of a transactional memory (TM) environment in transactions that are re-executions of previously aborted transactions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190235869A1 SUPPRESSING BRANCH PREDICTION ON A REPEATED EXECUTION OF AN ABORTED TRANSACTION Public/Granted day:2019-08-01
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