Title :
FCCM: A Novel Inter-Core Communication Mechanism in Multi-Core Platform
Author :
Luo, Cheng ; Bai, Yuebin ; Xu, Cong ; Zhang, Liang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Beihang Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
With the increasing number of cores integrated on a single chip, inter-core communication becomes more important in how to effectively support applications on multi-core platform. In this paper, we analyse the characteristics of multi-core tasks and classify processor cores into two categories based on their different functions: control core and computing core. According to the classification, we design a novel inter-core communication mechanism which includes three communication paths. With these paths, we can improve the utilization of multi-core by migrating the I/O part of applications from computing core to control core. Experiment results have proved the efficiency of them.
Keywords :
microprocessor chips; parallel architectures; FCCM; computing core; control core; multicore platform; novel intercore communication mechanism; processor cores; Application software; Communication system control; Computer applications; Computer architecture; Computer science; Costs; Information science; Multicore processing; Performance analysis; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Information Science and Engineering (ICISE), 2009 1st International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4909-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICISE.2009.589
