Data access delay has become the prominent performance bottleneck of high-end computing systems. The key to reducing data access delay in system design is to diminish data stall time. Memory locality and concurrency a...Data access delay has become the prominent performance bottleneck of high-end computing systems. The key to reducing data access delay in system design is to diminish data stall time. Memory locality and concurrency are the two essential factors influencing the performance of modern memory systems. However, existing studies in reducing data stall time rarely focus on utilizing data access concurrency because the impact of memory concurrency on overall memory system performance is not well understood. In this study, a pair of novel data stall time models, the L-C model for the combined effort of locality and concurrency and the P-M model for the effect of pure miss on data stall time, are presented. The models provide a new understanding of data access delay and provide new directions for performance optimization. Based on these new models, a summary table of advanced cache optimizations is presented. It has 38 entries contributed by data concurrency while only has 21 entries contributed by data locality, which shows the value of data concurrency. The L-C and P-M models and their associated results and opportunities introduced in this study are important and necessary for future data-centric architecture and algorithm design of modern computing systems.展开更多
针对多核处理器性能优化问题,文中深入研究多核处理器上共享Cache的管理策略,提出了基于缓存时间公平性与吞吐率的共享Cache划分算法MT-FTP(Memory Time based Fair and Throughput Partitioning)。以公平性和吞吐率两个评价性指标建立...针对多核处理器性能优化问题,文中深入研究多核处理器上共享Cache的管理策略,提出了基于缓存时间公平性与吞吐率的共享Cache划分算法MT-FTP(Memory Time based Fair and Throughput Partitioning)。以公平性和吞吐率两个评价性指标建立数学模型,并分析了算法的划分流程。仿真实验结果表明,MT-FTP算法在系统吞吐率方面表现较好,其平均IPC(Instructions Per Cycles)值比UCP(Use Case Point)算法高1.3%,比LRU(Least Recently Used)算法高11.6%。MT-FTP算法对应的系统平均公平性比LRU算法的系统平均公平性高17%,比UCP算法的平均公平性高16.5%。该算法实现了共享Cache划分公平性并兼顾了系统的吞吐率。展开更多
基金The work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation of USA under Grant Nos. CNS-1162540, CCF-0937877, and CNS-0751200. We would like to thank the Scalable Computing Software （SCS） group in the Illi- nois Institute of Technology and anonymous reviewers for their valuable and professional comments on earlier drafts of this work.
文摘Data access delay has become the prominent performance bottleneck of high-end computing systems. The key to reducing data access delay in system design is to diminish data stall time. Memory locality and concurrency are the two essential factors influencing the performance of modern memory systems. However, existing studies in reducing data stall time rarely focus on utilizing data access concurrency because the impact of memory concurrency on overall memory system performance is not well understood. In this study, a pair of novel data stall time models, the L-C model for the combined effort of locality and concurrency and the P-M model for the effect of pure miss on data stall time, are presented. The models provide a new understanding of data access delay and provide new directions for performance optimization. Based on these new models, a summary table of advanced cache optimizations is presented. It has 38 entries contributed by data concurrency while only has 21 entries contributed by data locality, which shows the value of data concurrency. The L-C and P-M models and their associated results and opportunities introduced in this study are important and necessary for future data-centric architecture and algorithm design of modern computing systems.
文摘针对多核处理器性能优化问题,文中深入研究多核处理器上共享Cache的管理策略,提出了基于缓存时间公平性与吞吐率的共享Cache划分算法MT-FTP(Memory Time based Fair and Throughput Partitioning)。以公平性和吞吐率两个评价性指标建立数学模型,并分析了算法的划分流程。仿真实验结果表明,MT-FTP算法在系统吞吐率方面表现较好,其平均IPC(Instructions Per Cycles)值比UCP(Use Case Point)算法高1.3%,比LRU(Least Recently Used)算法高11.6%。MT-FTP算法对应的系统平均公平性比LRU算法的系统平均公平性高17%,比UCP算法的平均公平性高16.5%。该算法实现了共享Cache划分公平性并兼顾了系统的吞吐率。
