A protocol for instruction stream processing

TL;DR

This paper presents a protocol for managing instruction stream processing in remote execution environments, enabling effective control and communication between instruction sequences and remote processing units.

Contribution

It introduces a novel protocol designed specifically for remote instruction stream processing, addressing challenges of control and communication.

Findings

Protocol effectively manages remote instruction streams

Ensures proper control flow in remote execution environments

Facilitates reliable remote instruction processing

Abstract

The behaviour produced by an instruction sequence under execution is a behaviour to be controlled by some execution environment: each step performed actuates the processing of an instruction by the execution environment and a reply returned at completion of the processing determines how the behaviour proceeds. In this paper, we are concerned with the case where the processing takes place remotely. We describe a protocol to deal with the case where the behaviour produced by an instruction sequence under execution leads to the generation of a stream of instructions to be processed and a remote execution unit handles the processing of that stream of instructions.