A scheduling scheme and mechanism for a processor system is disclosed. The
scheduling scheme provides a reservation station system that includes a
control reservation station and a data reservation station. The
reservation station system receives an operational entry and for each
operational entry it identifies scheduling state information, operand
state information, and operand information. The reservation station
system stores the scheduling state information and operand information as
a control reservation station entry in the control reservation station
and stores the operating state information and the operand information as
a data reservation station entry in the data reservation station. When
control reservation station entries are identified as ready, they are
scheduled and issued for execution by a functional unit. The result from
the functional unit is distributed within the control reservation station
and the data reservation station for subsequent operational entries to
use in preparation for scheduling and issuing those entries for
execution.