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ISCA
1996
IEEE
130views Hardware» more  ISCA 1996»
15 years 1 months ago
Informing Memory Operations: Providing Memory Performance Feedback in Modern Processors
Memory latency is an important bottleneck in system performance that cannot be adequately solved by hardware alone. Several promising software techniques have been shown to addres...
Mark Horowitz, Margaret Martonosi, Todd C. Mowry, ...
ECRTS
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
On the Design and Implementation of a Cache-Aware Multicore Real-Time Scheduler
Multicore architectures, which have multiple processing units on a single chip, have been adopted by most chip manufacturers. Most such chips contain on-chip caches that are share...
John M. Calandrino, James H. Anderson
ISLPED
2005
ACM
101views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2005»
15 years 3 months ago
Energy-aware fetch mechanism: trace cache and BTB customization
1 A highly-efficient fetch unit is essential not only to obtain good performance but also to achieve energy efficiency. However, existing designs are inflexible and depending on pr...
Daniel Chaver, Miguel A. Rojas, Luis Piñuel...
WMPI
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
A compressed memory hierarchy using an indirect index cache
Abstract. The large and growing impact of memory hierarchies on overall system performance compels designers to investigate innovative techniques to improve memory-system efficienc...
Erik G. Hallnor, Steven K. Reinhardt
ISCA
1999
IEEE
87views Hardware» more  ISCA 1999»
15 years 2 months ago
Memory Forwarding: Enabling Aggressive Layout Optimizations by Guaranteeing the Safety of Data Relocation
By optimizing data layout at run-time, we can potentially enhance the performance of caches by actively creating spatial locality, facilitating prefetching, and avoiding cache con...
Chi-Keung Luk, Todd C. Mowry