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| From | Jason Riedy <jason@lovesgoodfood.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.arch |
| Subject | Re: Very good news from AMD |
| Organization | Just me. |
| References | <251375a3-3e9e-4fa1-a25d-f755f475d378@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <87liw6q9he.fsf@NaN.sparse.dyndns.org> <b66281c8-6646-4da3-86e6-86f6e30bd62c@g12g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> |
| Date | 2011-07-11 08:37 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <87vcv9ouwa.fsf@NaN.sparse.dyndns.org> (permalink) |
And Quadibloc writes: >> Actually, only one instruction is allowed in the 40-deep pipe >> at a time. > > Huh? What would be the point of having a pipeline if it can > only handle one instruction at a time? One instruction per XMT/MTA hardware stream. So 40 streams can be in flight at once out of 128 (MTA) or 100 (XMT) available hardware streams. Each stream is independent. This *should* allow avoiding interlocks, but... -- Jason
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Re: Very good news from AMD MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2011-07-10 11:11 -0700
Re: Very good news from AMD Jason Riedy <jason@lovesgoodfood.com> - 2011-07-10 14:25 -0400
Re: Very good news from AMD "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-07-10 12:25 -0700
Re: Very good news from AMD Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-07-10 15:29 -0700
Re: Very good news from AMD Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-07-10 15:32 -0700
Re: Very good news from AMD Jason Riedy <jason@lovesgoodfood.com> - 2011-07-11 08:37 -0400
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