Memory load μops on P4/P4E microarchitecture

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Memory load μops on P4/P4E microarchitecture

Post by cianfa72 » 2021-11-04, 10:32:24

Hi,

reading your "The microarchitecture of Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs" latest update 2021-08-17, I would like to ask a question about section 5.4.

Starting from table 5.3 pag 55 it seems to me that memory load μops have to go on port 2 (single-speed load execution unit) and not on port 0 as said in the example 5.3 & 5.4 at page 56.

What do you think, does it makes sense ? Thank you.

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Re: Memory load μops on P4/P4E microarchitecture

Post by agner » 2021-11-04, 15:42:24

You are probably right. I don't remember much about the NetBurst architecture. Why do you care? NetBurst is long dead.

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Re: Memory load μops on P4/P4E microarchitecture

Post by cianfa72 » 2021-11-04, 15:50:17

agner wrote:
2021-11-04, 15:42:24
Why do you care? NetBurst is long dead.
Yes, it is. I am a newbie so my question was just to understand correctly how thing actually works.

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