Load μops
The Load Buffers
When a load μop arrives at the Allocator stage of the instruction pipeline (see “The Allocator” on page 938), the Allocator reserves one of the processor's 48 Load Buffers to handle the load when it is subsequently dispatched for execution. If Hyper-Threading is enabled, the 48 Load Buffers are partitioned into two groups of 24 buffers each and each group is reserved for the use of one of the logical processors.
See Figure 41-1 on page 1064. Port 2 supports the dispatch of one load operation per cycle. When a load μop is executed by the Load execution unit, the load request is placed in one of Load Buffers and remains there until one of the following becomes true:
The load μop is completed, retired, and deallocated. ...
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