The locality-aware adaptive cache coherence protocol
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Kurian, George; Khan, Omer; Devadas, Srinivas
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Next generation multicore applications will process massive amounts of data with significant sharing. Data movement and management impacts memory access latency and consumes power. Therefore, harnessing data locality is of fundamental importance in future processors. We propose a scalable, efficient shared memory cache coherence protocol that enables seamless adaptation between private and logically shared caching of on-chip data at the fine granularity of cache lines. Our data-centric approach relies on in-hardware yet low-overhead runtime profiling of the locality of each cache line and only allows private caching for data blocks with high spatio-temporal locality. This allows us to better exploit the private caches and enable low-latency, low-energy memory access, while retaining the convenience of shared memory. On a set of parallel benchmarks, our low-overhead locality-aware mechanisms reduce the overall energy by 25% and completion time by 15% in an NoC-based multicore with the Reactive-NUCA on-chip cache organization and the ACKwise limited directory-based coherence protocol.
Date issued
2013-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceJournal
Proceedings of the 40th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA '13)
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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George Kurian, Omer Khan, and Srinivas Devadas. 2013. The locality-aware adaptive cache coherence protocol. SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News 41, 3 (June 2013), 523-534.
Version: Author's final manuscript
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9781450320795