NDLI: Improved stride prefetching using extrinsic stream characteristics

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Al-Sukhni, H.F. Holt, J.C. Connors, D.A.
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	Stride-based prefetching mechanisms exploit regular streams of memory accesses to hide memory latency. While these mechanisms are effective, they can be improved by studying the properties of regular streams. As evidence of this, the establishment of metrics to quantify intrinsic characteristics of regular streams has been shown to enable software-based code optimizations. In this paper we extend previously identified regular stream metrics to quantify extrinsic characteristics of regular streams, and show how these new metrics can be employed to improve the efficiency of stride prefetching. The extrinsic metrics we introduce are stream affinity and stream density. Stream affinity enables prefetching for short streams that were previously ignored by stride prefetching mechanisms. Stream density enables a prioritization mechanism that dynamically selects amongst available streams in favor of those that promise more miss coverage, and provides thrashing control amongst several coexisting streams. Finally, we show that using intrinsic and extrinsic stream metrics in combination allows a novel hardware technique for controlling prefetch ahead distance (PAD) which dynamically adjusts the prefetch launch time to better enable timely prefetches while minimizing cache pollution. For a representative set of SPEC2K traces, our techniques consistently outperform our implementation of the closest previously reported stride-based prefetching technique.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc
Starting Page	166
Ending Page	176
File Size	3666159
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1424401860
DOI	10.1109/ISPASS.2006.1620801
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-03-19
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Prefetching Delay Hardware Runtime Software tools Atherosclerosis Water pollution Modems Monitoring Instruments
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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