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Re: Trace of CPU Instruction Reordering

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On 2/12/2012 6:04 PM, Ripunjay Tripathi wrote:
> I have studied a few things about instruction re-ordering by
> processors and Tomasulo's algorithm.
>
> In an attempt to understand this topic bit more I want to know if
> there is ANY way to (get the trace) see the actual dynamic reordering
> done for a given program?
>
> I want to give an input program and see the "out of order instruction
> execution trace" of my program.
>
> I have access to an IBM-P7 machine and an Intel Core2Duo laptop. Also
> please tell me if there is an easy alternative.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/kim/tortola/papers/weaver01performance.pdf
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~taustin/papers/ISPASS01-gpv.pdf

An academic version of tools common throughout industry.

E.g. an Intel "pipetrace visualization" differs from the AMD version 
mainly in the former having instructions go vertically, and time go 
horizontally, and the latter vice versa.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/Papers/Anindo_thesis.pdf
but few details.

http://www.simplescalar.com/docs/simple_tutorial_v4.pdf

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Trace of CPU Instruction Reordering Ripunjay Tripathi <ripunjay.tripathi@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 18:04 -0800
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