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IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Soft-OLP: Improving Hardware Cache Performance through Software-Controlled Object-Level Partitioning
—Performance degradation of memory-intensive programs caused by the LRU policy’s inability to handle weaklocality data accesses in the last level cache is increasingly serious ...
Qingda Lu, Jiang Lin, Xiaoning Ding, Zhao Zhang, X...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Accelerating two-dimensional page walks for virtualized systems
Nested paging is a hardware solution for alleviating the software memory management overhead imposed by system virtualization. Nested paging complements existing page walk hardwar...
Ravi Bhargava, Ben Serebrin, Francesco Spadini, Sr...
IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Whole-program optimization of global variable layout
On machines with high-performance processors, the memory system continues to be a performance bottleneck. Compilers insert prefetch operations and reorder data accesses to improve...
Nathaniel McIntosh, Sandya Mannarswamy, Robert Hun...
MICRO
1995
IEEE
108views Hardware» more  MICRO 1995»
13 years 8 months ago
SPAID: software prefetching in pointer- and call-intensive environments
Software prefetching, typically in the context of numericor loop-intensive benchmarks, has been proposed as one remedy for the performance bottleneck imposed on computer systems b...
Mikko H. Lipasti, William J. Schmidt, Steven R. Ku...
VALUETOOLS
2006
ACM
167views Hardware» more  VALUETOOLS 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Detailed cache simulation for detecting bottleneck, miss reason and optimization potentialities
Cache locality optimization is an efficient way for reducing the idle time of modern processors in waiting for needed data. This kind of optimization can be achieved either on the...
Jie Tao, Wolfgang Karl