Alibaba Group Holding Limited
INSTRUCTION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSOR, AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR INSTRUCTION ORDERING

Abstract:

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an instruction processing apparatus, comprising an instruction decoding circuitry configured to decode a set of instructions; a buffer comprising one or more buffer entries associated with the set of instructions, wherein the one or more buffer entries are configured to store information corresponding to at least one instruction of the set of instructions decoded by the instruction decoding circuitry; and an instruction executing circuitry configured to execute the at least one instruction, wherein a buffer entry storing the information corresponding to the at least one instruction is updated to indicate that the at least one instruction has been executed to enable retiring the set of instructions after the set of instructions have been executed.