Re: can anyone give a description in detail or definition of stall?


joggingsong@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
In some situations stall can occur and it causes a penalty in
performance.
But how does it happens and what is the status of the processor?
If there are some internet resources, please tell me.
Thanks.

I hope next time you will google yourself.

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/pipelining-2.ars/3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_stall

tc,
-N

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