- ...response.
- We will have to decide whether it is
appropriate to allow the memory system to indicate a context based on its
context number in the processor or based on a more global process number.
Using context number requires less bits of information, but can run into
problems when the processor wants to change the contexts it has loaded.
- ...complete
- Operations such as Read and Write Initiate which do not
require a response in order for execution to continue are not included in
this category.
- ...way.
- We assume here that the
memory system can deal with presenting a single completion operation each
cycle. It will queue up completion to present sequentially, if necessary.
- ...possible.
- i.e.
...before they go away. For instance, another context could require
the same cache location.
- ...context.
- We could always store the
whole state of the pipeline, but that sounds like too much trouble to
arrange.
- ...processor.
- ...well, it is intended to document these formats,
but insufficient thought has gone into the details of these formats to date
and the document does not exist, yet.
- ...context.
- perhaps there will
at most be one cycle of overhead in certain cases.
- ...possible
- Or, perhaps, just be very hard