NDLI: Network caching for Chip Multiprocessors

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Jinglei Wang Yibo Xue Haixia Wang Dongsheng Wang
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China (Jinglei Wang) \|\| Tsinghua National Laboratory of Information Science and Technology, Beijing 100084, China (Yibo Xue; Haixia Wang; Dongsheng Wang)
Abstract	The large working sets of commercial and scientific workloads favor a shared L2 cache design that maximizes the aggregate cache capacity and minimizes off-chip memory requests in Chip Multiprocessors (CMP). There are two important hurdles that restrict the scalability of these chip multiprocessors: the on-chip memory cost of directory and the long L1 miss latencies. This work presents network caching architecture aimed at facing these two important problems. Network caching takes advantage of on-chip networks to manage shared data blocks and directory information in chip multiprocessors. The network caching architecture removes the directory structure from shared L2 caches and stores directory information for the blocks recently cached by L1 caches in the network interface components decreasing on-chip directory memory overhead and improves the scalability. The saved memory space is used as shared data caches or victim caches which are embedded into the network interface components to reduce L1 miss latencies further. This paper develops three network caching designs to reduce L1 miss latencies. The proposed architecture is evaluated based on simulations of a 16-core tiled CMP. First, we demonstrate that network caching architecture provides good scalability. Second, network caching architecture also provides robust performance. Third, different network caching designs have distinct impacts on performance of CMP. Against over the traditional shared L2 cache design, Network Victim Cache (NVC) design improves performance by 23% on average, and up to 34% at best. Network Shared Cache (NSC) design provides performance improvement by 6% on average, and up to 16% at best. Network Directory Cache (NDC) design achieves performance improvement by 4% on average, and up to 11% at best.
Starting Page	341
Ending Page	348
File Size	787070
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424457373
ISSN	10972641
e-ISBN	9781424457380
DOI	10.1109/PCCC.2009.5403830
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-12-14
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Network-on-a-chip Scalability Delay Costs Network interfaces Tiles Protocols Computer science Aggregates Robustness directory-based cache coherence Chip Multiprocessors Network on Chip
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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