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Boosting single-thread performance in multi-core systems through fine-grain multi-threading
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Autor/a:
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Madriles Gimeno, Carles; López Muñoz, Pedro; Codina Viñas, Josep M.; Gibert Codina, Enric; Latorre Salinas, Fernando; Martínez Vicente, Alejandro; Martinez Morais, Raul; González Colás, Antonio María
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Otros autores:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ARCO - Microarquitectura i Compiladors |
Abstract:
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Industry has shifted towards multi-core designs as we have hit the memory and power walls. However, single thread performance
remains of paramount importance since some applications have limited thread-level parallelism (TLP), and even a small part with
limited TLP impose important constraints to the global performance, as explained by Amdahl’s law.
In this paper we propose a novel approach for leveraging multiple cores to improve single-thread performance in a multi-core
design. The proposed technique features a set of novel hardware mechanisms that support the execution of threads generated at
compile time. These threads result from a fine-grain speculative decomposition of the original application and they are executed
under a modified multi-core system that includes: (1) mechanisms to support multiple versions; (2) mechanisms to detect violations
among threads; (3) mechanisms to reconstruct the original sequential order; and (4) mechanisms to checkpoint the architectural state and recovery to handle misspeculations.
The proposed scheme outperforms previous hardware-only schemes to implement the idea of combining cores for executing
single-thread applications in a multi-core design by more than 10% on average on Spec2006 for all configurations. Moreover,
single-thread performance is improved by 41% on average when the proposed scheme is used on a Tiny Core, and up to 2.6x for some selected applications. |
Abstract:
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Peer Reviewed |
Materia(s):
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors::Arquitectures paral·leles -Processadors en paral·lel -- Disseny |
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Tipo de documento:
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Artículo - Versión publicada Objeto de conferencia |
Editor:
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ACM Press. Association for Computing Machinery
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