Scheduler Enhancements

The queues associated with the two schedulers that hold x87/SSE/SSE2/SSE3 μops were increased in size. In addition, the size of the General μop Queue and the Memory μop Queue were increased. The Allocator and the Register Rename logic can continue to look ahead in the instruction stream even when the schedulers are full.

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