Consider Order Pipeline Shown 10 Pipe Stages Pipeline Front End Spanning Fetch Dispatch Wo Q37097176

Consider and out of order pipeline as shown. There are 10 pipestages in this pipeline. The front-end –spanning from Fetch toDispatch—works in an in-order fashion (i.e., instructions arefetched, decoded, renamed and dispatched in program order). Thecore of the pipeline, from Issue to Writeback, works in anout-of-order fashion. Instructions are retired (committed) in anin-order fashion.

Out-of-order Engine In-order Engine

In this pipeline, an I-cache miss impacts the performancedifferently than a D-cache miss. This performance penaltydifference exists even when it takes equal number of cycles toservice the respective misses. Carefully explain why this isso.

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