Title
Near-optimal loop tiling by means of cache miss equations and genetic algorithms
Abstract
The effectiveness of the memory hierarchy is critical for the performance of current processors. The performance of the memory hierarchy can be improved by means of program transformations such as loop tiling, which is a code transformation targeted to reduce capacity misses. This paper presents a novel systematic approach to perform near-optimal loop tiling based on an accurate data locality analysis (cache miss equations) and a powerful technique to search the solution space that is based on a genetic algorithm. The results show that this approach can remove practically all capacity misses for all considered benchmarks. The reduction of replacement misses results in a decrease of the miss ratio that can be as significant as a factor of 7 for the matrix multiply kernel.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/ICPPW.2002.1039779
ICPP Workshops
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
cache storage,genetic algorithms,performance evaluation,storage management,cache miss equations,genetic algorithm,loop tiling,memory hierarchy,memory locality analysis,performance evaluation,program transformations
Conference
1530-2016
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-1680-7
16
0.99
References 
Authors
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaume Abella1104676.34
Antonio González23178229.66
Josep Llosa357439.30
Xavier Vera4594.50