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Abstract | ||
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Cache coherence scalability is a big challenge in shared memory systems. Traditional protocols do not scale due to the storage and traffic overhead of cache invalidation. Tardis, a recently proposed coherence protocol, removes cache invalidation using logical timestamps and achieves excellent scalability. The original Tardis protocol, however, only supports the Sequential Consistency (SC) memory model, limiting its applicability. Tardis also incurs extra network traffic on some benchmarks due to renew messages, and has suboptimal performance when the program uses spinning to communicate between threads. In this paper, we address these downsides of Tardis protocol and make it significantly more practical. Specifically, we discuss the architectural, memory system and protocol changes required in order to implement the TSO consistency model on Tardis, and prove that the modified protocol satisfies TSO. We also describe modifications for Partial Store Order (PSO) and Release Consistency (RC). Finally, we propose optimizations for better leasing policies and to handle program spinning. On a set of benchmarks, optimized Tardis improves on a full-map directory protocol in the metrics of performance, storage and network traffic, while being simpler to implement. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2016 | 10.1145/2967938.2967942 | PACT |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Tardis 2.0,time traveling coherence optimization,relaxed consistency models,cache coherence scalability,shared memory systems,coherence protocol,cache invalidation removal,sequential consistency memory model,SC,renew messages,Tardis protocol,TSO consistency model,partial store order,release consistency,PSO,RC,leasing policies,program spinning,full-map directory protocol,network traffic,storage metrics,performance metrics | Sequential consistency,Cache invalidation,Computer science,MESIF protocol,MESI protocol,Parallel computing,Real-time computing,Consistency model,Distributed computing,Release consistency,Cache coherence,Scalability | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-5090-5308-7 | 6 | 0.42 |
References | Authors | |
26 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xiangyao Yu | 1 | 270 | 16.17 |
| Hongzhe Liu | 2 | 6 | 0.42 |
| Ethan Zou | 3 | 6 | 0.76 |
| Srinivas Devadas | 4 | 8606 | 1146.30 |