Review Board 2.0.15


BP: Fix several Branch Predictor issues.

Review Request #830 - Created Aug. 19, 2011 and submitted - Latest diff uploaded

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Ali Saidi
gem5
Reviewers
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ali, gblack, nate, stever
BP: Fix several Branch Predictor issues.
1. Updates the Branch Predictor correctly to the state
   just after a mispredicted branch, if a squash occurs.
2. If a BTB does not find an entry, the branch is predicted not taken.
   The global history is modified to correctly reflect this prediction.
3. Local history is now updated at the fetch stage instead of
   execute stage.
4. In the Update stage of the branch predictor the local predictors are
   now correctly updated according to the state of local history during
   fetch stage.

This patch also improves performance by as much as 17% on some benchmarks