Title
Predictability of load/store instruction latencies
Abstract
Due to increasing cache-miss latencies, cache control instructions are being implemented for future systems. The authors study the memory referencing behavior of individual machine-level instructions using simulations of fully-associative caches under MIN replacement. Their objective is to obtain a deeper understanding of useful program behavior that can be eventually employed at optimizing programs and to motivate architectural features aimed at improving the efficacy of memory hierarchies. The simulation results show that a very small number of load/store instructions account for a majority of data cache misses. Specifically, fewer than 10 instructions account for half the misses for six out of nine SPEC89 benchmarks. Selectively prefetching data referenced by a small number of instructions identified through profiling can reduce overall miss ratio significantly while only incurring a small number of unnecessary prefetches
Year
DOI
Venue
1993
10.1109/MICRO.1993.282748
MICRO
Keywords
Field
DocType
store instruction latency,scheduling,clusters,vliw,profiling,dynamic scheduling,degradation,registers,threads
Small number,Predictability,Dataflow architecture,Scheduling (computing),Computer science,Cache,Profiling (computer programming),Parallel computing,Real-time computing,Thread (computing),Memory architecture
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-8186-5280-2
48
6.64
References 
Authors
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Santosh G. Abraham1762124.08
Rabin A. Sugumar221168.51
Daniel Windheiser312924.82
B. Ramakrishna Rau41290183.17
rajiv gupta54301364.53