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Guided region prefetching:a cooperative hardware/software approach

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Author	McKinley, Kathryn S. Burger, Doug Wang, Zhenlin Reinhardt, Steven K. Weems, Charles C.
Abstract	Despite large caches, main-memory access latencies still cause significant performance losses in many applications. Numerous hardware and software prefetching schemes have been proposed to tolerate these latencies. Software prefetching typically provides better prefetch accuracy than hardware, but is limited by prefetch instruction overheads and the compiler's limited ability to schedule prefetches sufficiently far in advance to cover level-two cache miss latencies. Hardware prefetching can be effective at hiding these large latencies, but generates many useless prefetches and consumes considerable memory bandwidth. In this paper, we propose a cooperative hardware-software prefetching scheme called Guided Region Prefetching (GRP), which uses compiler-generated hints encoded in load instructions to regulate an aggressive hardware prefetching engine. We compare GRP against a sophisticated pure hardware stride prefetcher and a scheduled region prefetching (SRP) engine. SRP and GRP show the best performance, with respective 22% and 21% gains over no prefetching, but SRP incurs 180% extra memory traffic---nearly tripling bandwidth requirements. GRP achieves performance close to SRP, but with a mere eighth of the extra prefetching traffic, a 23% increase over no prefetching. The GRP hardware-software collaboration thus combines the accuracy of compilerbased program analysis with the performance potential of aggressive hardware prefetching, bringing the performance gap versus a perfect L2 cache under 20%.
Starting Page	388
Ending Page	398
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01635964
DOI	10.1145/871656.859663
Journal	ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News (CARN)
Volume Number	31
Issue Number	2
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1981-04-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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