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Improving cache locality for thread-level speculation

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Improving cache locality for thread-level speculation
With the advent of chip-multiprocessors (CMPs), Thread-Level Speculation (TLS) remains a promising technique for exploiting this highly multithreaded hardware to improve the performance of an individual program. However, with such speculatively-parallel execution the cache locality once enjoyed by the original uniprocessor execution is significantly disrupted: for TLS execution on a four-processor CMP, we find that the data-cache miss rates are nearly four-times those of the uniprocessor case, even though TLS execution utilizes four private data caches (i.e., four-fold greater cache capacity). We break down the TLS cache locality problem into instruction and data cache, execution stages, and parallel access patterns, and propose methods to improve cache locality in each of these areas. We find that for parallel regions across 13 SPECint applications our simple and low-cost techniques reduce data-cache misses by 38%, improve performance by 12.8%, and significantly improve scalabili...
Stanley L. C. Fung, J. Gregory Steffan
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Type Conference
Year 2006
Where IPPS
Authors Stanley L. C. Fung, J. Gregory Steffan
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