Cooperative cache scrubbing

Managing the limited resources of power and memory bandwidth while improving performance on multicore hardware is challenging. In particular, more cores demand more memory bandwidth, and multi-threaded applications increasingly stress memory systems, leading to more energy consumption. However, we d...

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Vydáno v:PACT '14 : proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques : August 24-27, 2014, Edmonton, AB, Canada s. 15 - 26
Hlavní autoři: Sartor, Jennifer B., Heirman, Wim, Blackburn, Stephen M., Eeckhout, Lieven, McKinley, Kathryn S.
Médium: Konferenční příspěvek
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: ACM 01.08.2014
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Bandwidth
Hardware
Java
Memory management
Multicore processing
Random access memory
Resource management
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Shrnutí:Managing the limited resources of power and memory bandwidth while improving performance on multicore hardware is challenging. In particular, more cores demand more memory bandwidth, and multi-threaded applications increasingly stress memory systems, leading to more energy consumption. However, we demonstrate that not all memory traffic is necessary. For modern Java programs, 10 to 60% of DRAM writes are useless, because the data on these lines are dead - the program is guaranteed to never read them again. Furthermore, reading memory only to immediately zero initialize it wastes bandwidth. We propose a software/hardware cooperative solution: the memory manager communicates dead and zero lines with cache scrubbing instructions. We show how scrubbing instructions satisfy MESI cache coherence protocol invariants and demonstrate them in a Java Virtual Machine and multicore simulator. Scrubbing reduces average DRAM traffic by 59%, total DRAM energy by 14%, and dynamic DRAM energy by 57% on a range of configurations. Cooperative software/hardware cache scrubbing reduces memory bandwidth and improves energy efficiency, two critical problems in modern systems.
DOI:10.1145/2628071.2628083