Design Space Exploration for Implementing a Software-Based Speculative Memory System

To enlarge the opportunities for parallelizing a sequentially coded program, the authors have previously proposed speculative memory (SM). With SM, they can start the parallel execution of a program by assuming that it does not violate the data dependencies in the program. When the SM system detects...

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Vydáno v:International journal of software innovation Ročník 6; číslo 2; s. 37 - 49
Hlavní autoři: Fujisawa, Kohei, Nunome, Atsushi, Shibayama, Kiyoshi, Hirata, Hiroaki
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Mount Pleasant IGI Global 01.04.2018
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ISSN:2166-7160, 2166-7179
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Shrnutí:To enlarge the opportunities for parallelizing a sequentially coded program, the authors have previously proposed speculative memory (SM). With SM, they can start the parallel execution of a program by assuming that it does not violate the data dependencies in the program. When the SM system detects a violation, it recovers the computational state of the program and restarts the execution. In this article, the authors explore the design space for implementing a software-based SM system. They compared the possible choices in the following three viewpoints: (1) which waiting system of suspending or busy-waiting should be used, (2) when a speculative thread should be committed, and (3) which version of data a speculative thread should read. Consequently, the performance of the busy-waiting system which makes speculative threads commit early and read non-speculative values is better than that of others.
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DOI:10.4018/IJSI.2018040104