Runahead threads to improve SMT performance
Visualitza/Obre
Cita com:
hdl:2117/109826
Tipus de documentText en actes de congrés
Data publicació2008
EditorInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Condicions d'accésAccés obert
Tots els drets reservats. Aquesta obra està protegida pels drets de propietat intel·lectual i
industrial corresponents. Sense perjudici de les exempcions legals existents, queda prohibida la seva
reproducció, distribució, comunicació pública o transformació sense l'autorització del titular dels drets
Abstract
In this paper, we propose Runahead Threads (RaT) as a valuable solution for both reducing resource contention and exploiting memory-level parallelism in Simultaneous Multithreaded (SMT) processors. Our technique converts a resource intensive memory-bound thread to a speculative light thread under long-latency blocking memory operations. These speculative threads prefetch data and instructions with minimal resources, reducing critical resource conflicts between threads. We compare an SMT architecture using RaT to both state-of-the-art static fetch policies and dynamic resource control policies. In terms of throughput and fairness, our results show that RaT performs better than any other policy. The proposed mechanism improves average throughput by 37% regarding previous static fetch policies and by 28% compared to previous dynamic resource scheduling mechanisms. RaT also improves fairness by 36% and 30% respectively. In addition, the proposed mechanism permits register file size reduction of up to 60% in a SMT processor without performance degradation.
CitacióRamirez, T., Pajuelo, M.A., Santana, O., Valero, M. Runahead threads to improve SMT performance. A: International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture. "2008 IEEE 14th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture". Salt Lake City, UT: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2008, p. 149-158.
ISBN978-1-4244-2070-4
Versió de l'editorhttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4658635/
Fitxers | Descripció | Mida | Format | Visualitza |
---|---|---|---|---|
04658635.pdf | 281,1Kb | Visualitza/Obre |