From: lkcl Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 23:00:57 +0000 (+0100) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Tag: opf_rfc_ls005_v1~2414 X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f38871e6033dfae61e18da1278801d3269be1761;p=libreriscv.git --- diff --git a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn index cd49217b5..97f68aff4 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn @@ -263,6 +263,10 @@ Once the basics of this concept have sunk in, early advancements quickly follow naturally from analysis of the problem-space: +* Expanding the size of GPR, FPR and CR register files to + provide 128 entries in each. This is a bare minimum for GPUs + in order to keep processing workloads as close to a LOAD-COMPUTE-STORE + batching as possible. * Predication (an absolutely critical component for a Vector ISA), then the next logical advancement is to allow separate predication masks to be applied to *both* the source *and* the destination, independently.