Instruction scheduling

The compiler phase that orders instructions on a pipelined, superscalar, or VLIW architecture so as to maximise the number of function units operating in parallel and to minimise the time they spend waiting for each other.

Examples are filling a delay slot; interspersing floating-point instructions with integer instructions to keep both units operating; making adjacent instructions independent, e.g. one which writes a register and another which reads from it; separating memory writes to avoid filling the write buffer.

Norman P. Jouppi and David W. Wall, "Available Instruction-Level Parallelism for Superscalar and Superpipelined Processors" (ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/archive/pub/DEC/WRL/research-reports/WRL-TR-89.7.ps.Z), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, pp. 272--282, 1989.

[The SPARC Architecture Manual, v8, ISBN 0-13-825001-4]

< Previous Terms	Terms Containing instruction scheduling	Next Terms >
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Instruction Address Register instruction mnemonic instruction prefetch	Maril Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages scheduling	instruction set instruction set architecture Instruction Set Processor instrument int