NDLI: Uncorq: Unconstrained Snoop Request Delivery in Embedded-Ring Multiprocessors

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Author	Strauss, K. Xiaowei Shen Torrellas, J.
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana (Strauss, K.)
Abstract	Snoopy cache coherence can be implemented in any physical network topology by embedding a logical unidirectional ring in the network. Control messages are forwarded using the ring, while other messages can use any path. While the resulting coherence protocols are inexpensive to implement, they enable many ways of overlapping multiple transactions that access the same line-making it hard to reason about correctness. Moreover, snoop requests are required to traverse the ring, therefore lengthening coherence transaction latencies. In this paper, we address these problems and make two main contributions. First, we introduce the ordering invariant, which ensures the correct serialization of colliding transactions in embedded-ring protocols. Second, based on this invariant, we remove the requirement that snoop requests traverse the ring. Instead, they are delivered using any network path, as long as snoop responses - which are typically off the critical path - use the logical ring. This approach substantially reduces coherence transaction latency. We call the resulting protocol Uncorq. We show that, on a 64-node chip multiprocessor (CMP), Uncorq improves the performance, on average, by 23% for SPLASH-2 applications and by 10% for commercial applications. With an additional simple prefetching optimization, the performance improvement is, on average, 26% for SPLASH-2 applications and 18% for commercial applications.
Starting Page	327
Ending Page	342
File Size	1437294
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769530475
ISSN	10724451
DOI	10.1109/MICRO.2007.37
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-12-01
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Delay Broadcasting Access protocols Costs Network topology Prefetching Microarchitecture Power systems Timing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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