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Forwarding Network and Stall Control for Data Hazards: Reports and Metrics

Reports and Metrics for Forwarding Network and Stall Control for Data Hazards.

Reports and metrics

Reports and Metrics for Forwarding Network and Stall Control for Data Hazards is anchored on RAW hazard coverage percentage with zero incorrect-commit events and minimum load-use stall cycles per kilo-instruction.. Convert observations into mechanism-backed decisions with explicit ownership.

Before/after trend

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BEFORE / AFTER TREND - Forwarding Network and Stall Control for Data Hazards

RAW hazard coverage percentage with zero incorrect-commit events and minimum load-use stall cycles per kilo-instruction.
  ^
  |                           o target band
  |                    o after fix + reruns
  |             o
  |      o baseline (failing)
  +--------------------------------------------------> iteration
       capture issue      isolate mechanism      close + monitor

Use this view to confirm the gain is causal and stable across seeds.

Root-cause tree

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ROOT CAUSE TREE - Forwarding Network and Stall Control for Data Hazards

RAW hazard coverage percentage with zero incorrect-commit events and minimum load-use stall cycles per kilo-instruction. regressed
          |
   reproducible on fixed seed?
      /                 \
    no                   yes
    |                     |
env/tool drift       first failing domain?
                     /        |         \
                  decode    execute    memory/MMU
                    |         |            |
               control map  bypass/FU   TLB/walk/perm
                    |
         privilege/CSR side effects checked?

Stop at first confirmed mechanism, then assign explicit owner + fix proof.
  • Track RAW hazard coverage percentage with zero incorrect-commit events and minimum load-use stall cycles per kilo-instruction. on representative workloads, not just microbenchmarks.

  • Include build/runtime/privilege metadata in report headers.

  • Pair performance movement with correctness and reliability checks.

  • Report tail stability, not only mean uplift.