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===== Renaming & Allocation =====
 
===== Renaming & Allocation =====
Like the front-end, the [[Reorder Buffer]] has been increased to 224 entries, 32 entries more than {{\\|Broadwell}}. Since each ROB entry holds complete µOPs, in practice 224 entries might be equivalent to as much as 350 µOPs depending on the code being executed (e.g. fused load/stores). It is at this stage that [[architectural registers]] are mapped onto the underlying [[physical registers]]. Other additional bookkeeping tasks are also done at this point such as allocating resources for stores, loads, and determining all possible scheduler ports. Register renaming is also controlled by the [[Register Alias Table]] (RAT) which is used to mark where the data we depend on is coming from (after that value, too, came from an instruction that has previously been renamed). In {{intel|microarchitectures|previous microarchitectures}}, the RAT could handle 4 µOPs each cycle. Intel has not disclosed if that has changed in Skylake but it's possible. If unchanged, Skylake can rename any four registers per cycle. This includes the same register renamed four times in a single cycle. If the rename has not increased in Skylake, some aspects of improvements that were done in the prefetch/decode stages are effectively lost. Note that the ROB still operates on fused µOPs, therefore 4 µOPs can effectively be as high as 8 µOPs.
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Like the front-end, the [[Reorder Buffer]] has been increased to 224 entries, 32 entries more than {{\\|Broadwell}}. Since each ROB entry holds complete µOPs, in practice 224 entries might be equivalent to as much as 350 µOPs depending on the code being executed (e.g. fused load/stores). It is at this stage that [[architectural registers]] are mapped onto the underlying [[physical registers]]. Other additional bookkeeping tasks are also done at this point such as allocating resources for stores, loads, and determining all possible scheduler ports. Register renaming is also controlled by the [[Register Alias Table]] (RAT) which is used to mark where the data we depend on is coming from (after that value, too, came from an instruction that has previously been renamed). In {{intel|microarchitectures|previous microarchitectures}}, the RAT could handle 4 µOPs each cycle. Intel has not disclosed if that has changed in Skylake but it's possible. If this has not change, Skylake can rename any four registers per cycle. This includes the same register renamed four times in a single cycle. If the rename has not increased in Skylake, some aspects of improvements that were done in the prefetch/decode stages are effectively lost. Note that the ROB still operates on fused µOPs, therefore 4 µOPs can effectively be as high as 8 µOPs.
  
 
It should be noted that there is no special costs involved in splitting up fused µOPs before execution or [[retirement]] and the two fused µOPs only occupy a single entry in the ROB.
 
It should be noted that there is no special costs involved in splitting up fused µOPs before execution or [[retirement]] and the two fused µOPs only occupy a single entry in the ROB.

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codenameSkylake (client) +
core count2 + and 4 +
designerIntel +
first launchedAugust 5, 2015 +
full page nameintel/microarchitectures/skylake (client) +
instance ofmicroarchitecture +
instruction set architecturex86-64 +
manufacturerIntel +
microarchitecture typeCPU +
nameSkylake (client) +
pipeline stages (max)19 +
pipeline stages (min)14 +
process14 nm (0.014 μm, 1.4e-5 mm) +