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Abstract : |
Data cache misses reduce the performance of wide-issue processors by stalling the data supply to the processor. Prefetching data by predicting the miss address is one way to tolerate the cache miss latencies. But current applications with irregular access patterns make it difficult to accurately predict the address sufficiently early to mask large cache miss latencies. This paper explores an alternative to predicting prefetch addresses, namely precomputing them. The Dependence Graph Precomputation scheme (DGP) introduced in this paper is a novel approach for dynamically identifying and precomputing the instructions that determine the addresses accessed by those load/store instructions marked as being responsible for most data cache misses. DGP?s dependence graph generator efficiently generates, |
