CPC G06F 9/30123 (2013.01) [G06F 9/3013 (2013.01); G06F 9/384 (2013.01); G06F 9/3861 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method for restoring a mapper of a processor core, the method comprising:
saving first information in a staging latch, the first information representing a newly dispatched first instruction of the processor core;
saving the first information in an entry latch of a save-and-restore buffer of the processor core; and
in response to reception of a flush command of the processor core, beginning the restoration of the mapper with the first information from the staging latch without waiting for a comparison of a flush tag of the flush command with the entry latch of the save-and-restore buffer.
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