NDLI: Dynamic performance tuning for speculative threads

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Author	Packirisamy, Venkatesan Luo, Yangchun Hsu, Wei-Chung Mungre, Nikhil Tarkas, Ankit Zhai, Antonia
Abstract	In response to the emergence of multicore processors, various novel and sophisticated execution models have been introduced to fully utilize these processors. One such execution model is Thread-Level Speculation (TLS), which allows potentially dependent threads to execute speculatively in parallel. While TLS offers significant performance potential for applications that are otherwise non-parallel, extracting efficient speculative threads in the presence of complex control flow and ambiguous data dependences is a real challenge. This task is further complicated by the fact that the performance of speculative threads is often architecture-dependent, input-sensitive, and exhibits phase behaviors. Thus we propose dynamic performance tuning mechanisms that determine where and how to create speculative threads at runtime. This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of hardware and software support that takes advantage of runtime performance profiles to extract efficient speculative threads. In our proposed framework, speculative threads are monitored by hardware-based performance counters and their performance impact is estimated. The creation of speculative threads is adjusted based on the estimation. This paper proposes speculative threads performance estimation techniques, that are capable of correctly determining whether speculation can improve performance for loops that corresponds to 83.8% of total loop execution time across all benchmarks. This paper also examines several dynamic performance tuning policies and finds that the best tuning policy achieves an overall speedup of 36.8%on a set of benchmarks from SPEC2000 suite, which outperforms static thread management by 9.5%.
Starting Page	462
Ending Page	473
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01635964
DOI	10.1145/1555815.1555812
Journal	ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News (CARN)
Volume Number	37
Issue Number	3
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1981-04-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Multicore Dynamic optimization Parallelism Thread-level speculation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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