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Transcending hardware limits with software out-of-order processing
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Computer Architecture and Computer Communication.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Computer Architecture and Computer Communication.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Computer Architecture and Computer Communication.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Computer Architecture and Computer Communication.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9460-1290
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2017 (English)In: IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, ISSN 1556-6056, Vol. 16, no 2, p. 162-165Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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2017. Vol. 16, no 2, p. 162-165
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Computer Systems
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-334012DOI: 10.1109/LCA.2017.2672559ISI: 000418870500018OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-334012DiVA, id: diva2:1158495
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UPMARCAvailable from: 2017-02-22 Created: 2017-11-20 Last updated: 2018-04-26Bibliographically approved
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1. Static instruction scheduling for high performance on energy-efficient processors
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2018 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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New trends such as the internet-of-things and smart homes push the demands for energy-efficiency. Choosing energy-efficient hardware, however, often comes as a trade-off to high-performance. In order to strike a good balance between the two, we propose software solutions to tackle the performance bottlenecks of small and energy-efficient processors.

One of the main performance bottlenecks of processors is the discrepancy between processor and memory speed, known as the memory wall. While the processor executes instructions at a high pace, the memory is too slow to provide data in a timely manner, if data has not been cached in advance. Load instructions that require an access to memory are thereby referred to as long-latency or delinquent loads. Long latencies caused by delinquent loads are putting a strain on small processors, which have few or no resources to effectively hide the latencies. As a result, the processor may stall.

In this thesis we propose compile-time transformation techniques to mitigate the penalties of delinquent loads on small out-of-order processors, with the ultimate goal to avoid processor stalls as much as possible. Our code transformation is applicable for general-purpose code, including unknown memory dependencies, complex control flow and pointers. We further propose a software-hardware co-design that combines the code transformation technique with lightweight hardware support to hide latencies on a stall-on-use in-order processor.

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Uppsala University, 2018
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Information technology licentiate theses: Licentiate theses from the Department of Information Technology, ISSN 1404-5117 ; 2018-001
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Computer Engineering
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Computer Science
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urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-349420 (URN)
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Available from: 2017-12-18 Created: 2018-04-26 Last updated: 2019-02-25Bibliographically approved

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