From f38871e6033dfae61e18da1278801d3269be1761 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 00:00:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) 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. -- 2.30.2