Mitosis: A speculative multithreaded processor based on pre-computation slices

This paper presents the Mitosis framework, which is a combined hardware-software approach to speculative multithreading, even in the presence of frequent dependences among threads. Speculative multithreading increases single-threaded application performance by exploiting thread-level parallelism spe...

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Autores: Madriles Gimeno, Carles, García Quiñones, Carlos, Sánchez, Jesús, Marcuello, Pedro, González Colás, Antonio María|||0000-0002-0009-0996, Tullsen, Dean, Wang, Hong, Shen, John P.
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Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/100454
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https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2007.70797
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Palavra-chave:Compilers (Computer programs)
Cache memory
Speculative thread-level parallelism
Precomputation slices
Thread partitioning
Multicore architecture
Compiladors (Programes d'ordinador)
Memòria cau
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors
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spelling Mitosis: A speculative multithreaded processor based on pre-computation slicesMadriles Gimeno, CarlesGarcía Quiñones, CarlosSánchez, JesúsMarcuello, PedroGonzález Colás, Antonio María|||0000-0002-0009-0996Tullsen, DeanWang, HongShen, John P.Compilers (Computer programs)Cache memorySpeculative thread-level parallelismPrecomputation slicesThread partitioningMulticore architectureCompiladors (Programes d'ordinador)Memòria cauÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadorsThis paper presents the Mitosis framework, which is a combined hardware-software approach to speculative multithreading, even in the presence of frequent dependences among threads. Speculative multithreading increases single-threaded application performance by exploiting thread-level parallelism speculatively, that is, executing code in parallel, even when the compiler or runtime system cannot guarantee that the parallelism exists. The proposed approach is based on predicting/computing thread input values via software through a piece of code that is added at the beginning of each thread (the precomputation slice). A precomputation slice is expected to compute the correct thread input values most of the time but not necessarily always. This allows aggressive optimization techniques to be applied to the slice to make it very short. This paper focuses on the microarchitecture that supports this execution model. The primary novelty of the microarchitecture is the hardware support for the execution and validation of precomputation slices. Additionally, this paper presents new architectures for the register file and the cache memory in order to support multiple versions of each variable and allow for efficient rollback in case of misspeculation. We show that the proposed microarchitecture, together with the compiler support, achieves an average speedup of 2.2 for applications that conventional nonspeculative approaches are not able to parallelize at all.Peer Reviewed20082008-07-0120172017-02-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2117/100454https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2007.70797reponame:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPCinstname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/1004542026-05-27T15:37:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Mitosis: A speculative multithreaded processor based on pre-computation slices
title Mitosis: A speculative multithreaded processor based on pre-computation slices
spellingShingle Mitosis: A speculative multithreaded processor based on pre-computation slices
Madriles Gimeno, Carles
Compilers (Computer programs)
Cache memory
Speculative thread-level parallelism
Precomputation slices
Thread partitioning
Multicore architecture
Compiladors (Programes d'ordinador)
Memòria cau
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors
title_short Mitosis: A speculative multithreaded processor based on pre-computation slices
title_full Mitosis: A speculative multithreaded processor based on pre-computation slices
title_fullStr Mitosis: A speculative multithreaded processor based on pre-computation slices
title_full_unstemmed Mitosis: A speculative multithreaded processor based on pre-computation slices
title_sort Mitosis: A speculative multithreaded processor based on pre-computation slices
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Madriles Gimeno, Carles
García Quiñones, Carlos
Sánchez, Jesús
Marcuello, Pedro
González Colás, Antonio María|||0000-0002-0009-0996
Tullsen, Dean
Wang, Hong
Shen, John P.
author Madriles Gimeno, Carles
author_facet Madriles Gimeno, Carles
García Quiñones, Carlos
Sánchez, Jesús
Marcuello, Pedro
González Colás, Antonio María|||0000-0002-0009-0996
Tullsen, Dean
Wang, Hong
Shen, John P.
author_role author
author2 García Quiñones, Carlos
Sánchez, Jesús
Marcuello, Pedro
González Colás, Antonio María|||0000-0002-0009-0996
Tullsen, Dean
Wang, Hong
Shen, John P.
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Compilers (Computer programs)
Cache memory
Speculative thread-level parallelism
Precomputation slices
Thread partitioning
Multicore architecture
Compiladors (Programes d'ordinador)
Memòria cau
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors
topic Compilers (Computer programs)
Cache memory
Speculative thread-level parallelism
Precomputation slices
Thread partitioning
Multicore architecture
Compiladors (Programes d'ordinador)
Memòria cau
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors
description This paper presents the Mitosis framework, which is a combined hardware-software approach to speculative multithreading, even in the presence of frequent dependences among threads. Speculative multithreading increases single-threaded application performance by exploiting thread-level parallelism speculatively, that is, executing code in parallel, even when the compiler or runtime system cannot guarantee that the parallelism exists. The proposed approach is based on predicting/computing thread input values via software through a piece of code that is added at the beginning of each thread (the precomputation slice). A precomputation slice is expected to compute the correct thread input values most of the time but not necessarily always. This allows aggressive optimization techniques to be applied to the slice to make it very short. This paper focuses on the microarchitecture that supports this execution model. The primary novelty of the microarchitecture is the hardware support for the execution and validation of precomputation slices. Additionally, this paper presents new architectures for the register file and the cache memory in order to support multiple versions of each variable and allow for efficient rollback in case of misspeculation. We show that the proposed microarchitecture, together with the compiler support, achieves an average speedup of 2.2 for applications that conventional nonspeculative approaches are not able to parallelize at all.
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