IPPS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Current processors exploit out-of-order execution and branch prediction to improve instruction level parallelism. When a branch prediction is wrong, processors flush the pipeline ...
ECRTS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Branch prediction mechanisms are becoming commonplace within current generation processors. Dynamic branch predictors, albeit able to predict branches quite accurately in average,...
APCSAC
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Conditional branch induced control hazards cause significant performance loss in modern out-of-order superscalar processors. Dynamic branch prediction techniques help alleviate th...
APCSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
This paper describes a new on-demand wakeup prediction policy for instruction cache leakage control that achieves better leakage savings than prior policies, and avoids the perform...
CTRSA
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper announces a new software side-channel attack — enabled by the branch prediction capability common to all modern highperformance CPUs. The penalty paid (extra clock cyc...