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HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Serializing instructions in system-intensive workloads: Amdahl's Law strikes again
Serializing instructions (SIs), such as writes to control registers, have many complex dependencies, and are difficult to execute out-of-order (OoO). To avoid unnecessary complexi...
Philip M. Wells, Gurindar S. Sohi