International Business Machines Corporation
Dynamic modification of instructions that do not modify the architectural state of a processor

Abstract:

A system and method including a processor configured to, based on encountering an instruction that does not modify the architectural state of the processor, preferably a prefetch instruction, that is being executed by the processor, determine whether utilization of a first queue used in processing the instruction is over a first queue utilization limit; in response to the first queue utilization being over the first queue utilization limit, do not execute the prefetch instruction; and in response to the first queue utilization being under the first queue utilization limit, at least partially process the prefetch instruction.