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Prefetch-aware shared resource management for multi-core systems

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Prefetch-aware shared resource management for multi-core systems
Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) share a large portion of the memory subsystem among multiple cores. Recent proposals have addressed high-performance and fair management of these shared resources; however, none of them take into account prefetch requests. Without prefetching, significant performance is lost, which is why existing systems prefetch. By not taking into account prefetch requests, recent shared-resource management proposals often significantly degrade both performance and fairness, rather than improve them in the presence of prefetching. This paper is the first to propose mechanisms that both manage the shared resources of a multi-core chip to obtain highperformance and fairness, and also exploit prefetching. We apply our proposed mechanisms to two resource-based management techniques for memory scheduling and one source-throttling-based management technique for the entire shared memory system. We show that our mechanisms improve the performance of a 4-core system that uses ...
Eiman Ebrahimi, Chang Joo Lee, Onur Mutlu, Yale N.
Added 21 Aug 2011
Updated 21 Aug 2011
Type Journal
Year 2011
Where ISCA
Authors Eiman Ebrahimi, Chang Joo Lee, Onur Mutlu, Yale N. Patt
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