John M. King

Variable Access Latency with Storage Array Extensions on Stacked Dies

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING OUT-OF-ORDER LOAD OPERATIONS WITH CHECKPOINT BITS OF DATA CACHE TAGS

Pseudo out-of-order store commit

Systems and methods for tracking data cache miss requests with data cache tags

Techniques for handling cache coherency traffic for contended semaphores

Techniques for performing store-to-load forwarding

Multi-modal gather operation

Masked multi-lane instruction memory fault handling using fast and slow execution paths

System and method for a lightweight fencing operation

System and method for load fusion

System and method for store fusion

System and method for processing a load micro-operation by allocating an address generation scheduler queue entry without allocating a load queue entry

Configurable skewed associativity in a translation lookaside buffer

Techniques for handling cache coherency traffic for contended semaphores

Lock address contention predictor

Speculative retirement of post-lock instructions

Updating least-recently-used data for greater persistence of higher generality cache entries

System and method for load and store queue allocations at address generation time

Unified store queue for reducing linear aliasing effects

Checkpointing registers for transactional memory

TRACKING AND RECLAIMING PHYSICAL REGISTERS

Oldest operation translation look-aside buffer

Method and apparatus including a probe filter for shared caches utilizing inclusion bits and a victim probe bit

Lane crossing instruction selecting operand data bits conveyed from register via direct path and lane crossing path for execution