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Dynamic Hot Data Stream Prefetching for General-Purpose Programs Chilimbi and Hirzel

Learn about dynamic hot data stream prefetching, a technique to prefetch data before it's needed, boosting performance by minimizing stall cycles due to cache misses. This paper discusses profiling, detection, and a DFSM prefetching engine to enhance program efficiency.

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Dynamic Hot Data Stream Prefetching for General-Purpose Programs Chilimbi and Hirzel

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  1. Dynamic Hot Data Stream Prefetching for General-Purpose ProgramsChilimbi and Hirzel John-Paul Fryckman CSE 231: Paper Presentation 23 May 2002

  2. Why Prefetching? • Increasing memory latencies • Not enough single thread ILP to hide memory latencies • Minimizing stall cycles due to misses increases IPC (increases performance) • Fetch data before it is needed!

  3. Target Hot Data • Highly repetitious memory sequences • Hot sequences are 15-20 objects long • Hot data • 90% of program references • 80% of cache misses

  4. Why Dynamic • Dynamic prefetching translates into a general purpose solution • Many unknowns at compile time • Pointer chasing code • Irregular strides

  5. Dynamic Hot Data Stream Prefetching • Profile memory references • Detect hot data streams • Create and insert triggers for these streams • And, repeat!

  6. Profiling and Detection • Need to minimize profiling overhead • Use sampling • Switch into instrumented code • Collect traces • Find hot data streams • Generate context-free grammars for hot sequences

  7. DFSM Prefetching Engine • Merge CFGs together into a massive DFSM • DFSM detects prefixes for hot sequences, then generates fetches for the rest of the data • Insert prefetching code • Presumably, states are removed when they are no longer hot

  8. Good and the Not So Good • Good: • With overhead, 5-19% speedups • Questionable Questions: • How does it impact easy to predict code? • Worse case state for DFSM: O(2n) • They did not study this. Is this possible? • Do they always prefetch in time? • What about phase changes/cache pollution?

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