Title :
The Impact of Parallel and Multithread Mechanism on Network Processor Performance
Author :
Wu, Chunqing ; Shi, Xiangquan ; Yang, Xuejun ; Su, Jinshu
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sch., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha
Abstract :
Network processors are becoming a predominant feature in the field of network hardware due to its high performance and flexibility. The performance of network processor mainly depends on its architecture. This paper studied the parallel architecture and multithread mechanism in network processor. We discussed reasons of thread stalls and the principle of hiding latencies caused by various stalls using multithread mechanism. Lastly, we present the test results based on analyzing the relationship of active thread number and the performance of network processor
Keywords :
multi-threading; multiprocessing systems; parallel architectures; performance evaluation; multithread mechanism; network processor performance; parallel architecture; Clocks; Computer aided instruction; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Coprocessors; Hardware; Parallel processing; Random access memory; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
Grid and Cooperative Computing, 2006. GCC 2006. Fifth International Conference
Conference_Location :
Hunan
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2694-2
DOI :
10.1109/GCC.2006.91
