Title :
Making Address-Correlated Prefetching Practical
Author :
Wenisch, Thomas F. ; Ferdman, Michael ; Ailamaki, Anastasia ; Falsafi, Babak ; Moshovos, Andreas
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract :
Despite a decade of research demonstrating its efficacy, address-correlated prefetching has never been implemented in a shipping processor because it requires megabytes of metadata - too large to store practically on chip. New storage-, latency-, and bandwidth-efficient mechanisms for storing metadata off chip yield a practical design that achieves 90 percent of the performance potential of idealized on-chip metadata storage.
Keywords :
meta data; storage management; storage management chips; address correlated prefetching; bandwidth efficient mechanisms; latency efficient mechanisms; on-chip metadata storage; shipping processor; storage efficient mechanisms; Bandwidth; Delay; Hardware; Innovation management; Prefetching; Production; System-on-a-chip; Table lookup; Technological innovation; Throughput; address-correlated prefetching; cache memories;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
