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NUCA-2A: A New Adaptive and Behavior Aware Block Placement Process

Author(s): Mohamed Salah Souahi* and Mohamed Ben Mohammed

Volume 12, Issue 2, 2019

Page: [101 - 109] Pages: 9

DOI: 10.2174/2213275911666181114113340

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Abstract

Background: The last three decades were marked by a spectacular evolution of CPUs. Both cores number on chip and shared Low Level Cache (LLC) size are increasing what makes LLC the bottleneck's system. One major weakness of future cache memory hierarchies will be to carry out memory blocks availability for vertical requests, with no consideration to horizontal proximity to cores. Simulations show that some LLC accesses cost more latency cycles than off-chip accesses.

Objective: This paper presents a new adaptive and blocks behavior aware process, called NUCA-2A. It manages blocks in LLC in a purpose of reducing it's latency, and it's inner bandwidth, by studying each block's behavior, and by placing it in the most suitable location among LLC banks.

Methods: LLC accesses are classified basing on each one's specific behavior. Authors establish also a two levels horizontal hierarchy in LLC. This work consists to place blocks in the zones that matches the best their behaviors.

Results: In contrast to the classic S-NUCA scheme, NUCA-2A makes a reduction of up to 60,39% of global LLC latency as well as 40,74% of average inner traffic. It makes also an average speedup of 17,89 % in term of number of instructions executed by cycle.

Conclusion: Behaviors study gives encouraging results. Several methods are in use in different fields to forecast a behavior basing on previous observations. We are working on a prefetching model that permits blocks migration to and from privileged banks.

Keywords: Processor, multicore, cache memory, LLC, blocks migration, latency, NUCA, CMP.

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