[PDF][PDF] Data prefetching in multiprocessor vector cache memories
JWC Fu, JH Patel - ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, 1991 - dl.acm.org
… technique we show how a non-prefetching vector cache can result in unpredictable … by
fetching a small data size for vector misses with long strides and the stride-prefetch …
fetching a small data size for vector misses with long strides and the stride-prefetch …
Vector prefetching
MK Gschwind, TJ Pietsch - ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, 1995 - dl.acm.org
… Prefetching Basics To measure the benefit which can be derived by using intelligent prefetching,
we decided to add a prefetching … applied to speed up list and vector processing [GP93]. …
we decided to add a prefetching … applied to speed up list and vector processing [GP93]. …
Exploiting Vector Code Semantics for Efficient Data Cache Prefetching
F Martínez Palau, M Torrents, A Armejach… - Proceedings of the 38th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
… to run in a vector processor regardless of the size of its vector registers. In … vector length
that cannot be changed. This paper demonstrates that VLA vector ISAs bring new prefetching …
that cannot be changed. This paper demonstrates that VLA vector ISAs bring new prefetching …
[PDF][PDF] Stride directed prefetching in scalar processors
JWC Fu, JH Patel, BL Janssens - ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter, 1992 - dl.acm.org
… Stride directed prefetching has been proposed to improve the cache performance of numerical
programs executing on a vector processor, This paper shows how this approach can be …
programs executing on a vector processor, This paper shows how this approach can be …
Data prefetch mechanisms
SP Vanderwiel, DJ Lilja - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2000 - dl.acm.org
… In the case of prefetch-on-miss, prefetching is suppressed … Although vector prefetching does
issue prefetches for large … strides benefit the most from vector prefetching, as expected. For …
issue prefetches for large … strides benefit the most from vector prefetching, as expected. For …
When prefetching works, when it doesn't, and why
… prefetching schemes we consider use prefetch intrinsics on top of gcc or icc compiler-inserted
prefetching. … We define prefetch distance as the distance ahead of which a prefetch should …
prefetching. … We define prefetch distance as the distance ahead of which a prefetch should …
A hardware prefetching mechanism for vector gather instructions
… the memory access latencies of vector gather instructions. … a single vector gather instruction
by varying the prefetching … a prefetching mechanism for the vector gather instruction. …
by varying the prefetching … a prefetching mechanism for the vector gather instruction. …
[BOOK][B] A primer on hardware prefetching
B Falsafi, TF Wenisch - 2022 - books.google.com
… A key innovation of the design is a compressed representation of the instruction sequence
that uses bit vectors to efficiently encode spatial locality among prefetch addresses. Follow-on …
that uses bit vectors to efficiently encode spatial locality among prefetch addresses. Follow-on …
Compiler-generated vector-based prefetching on architectures with distributed memory
MM Müller - High Performance Computing in Science and …, 2001 - Springer
… In principal, vector commands for prefetching are only useful … prefetch instructions are used
throughout the whole prefetch … vector strategy that declares the usage of vector operations. …
throughout the whole prefetch … vector strategy that declares the usage of vector operations. …
Effects of MSHR and prefetch mechanisms on an on-chip cache of the vector architecture
A Musa, Y Sato, T Soga, R Egawa… - … on Parallel and …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… (MSHR) and a prefetch mechanism. This paper evaluates the performance of the vector
cache with the MSHR and the prefetch mechanism on the vector supercomputer across three …
cache with the MSHR and the prefetch mechanism on the vector supercomputer across three …