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Design and Implementation of a Compiler Framework for Helper Threading on Multi-core Processors

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Design and Implementation of a Compiler Framework for Helper Threading on Multi-core Processors
Helper threading is a technique that utilizes a second core or logical processor in a multi-threaded system to improve the performance of the main thread. A helper thread executes in parallel with the main thread that it attempts to accelerate. In this paper, the helper thread merely prefetches data into a shared cache and does not incur any other programmer visible effects. Helper thread prefetching has been proposed as a viable solution in various scenarios where it is difficult to prefetch efficiently within the main thread itself. This paper presents our helper threading experience on SUN’s second dual-core SPARC microprocessor, the UltraSPARC IV+. The two cores on this processor share an on-chip L2 and an off-chip L3 cache. We present a compiler framework to automatically construct helper threads and evaluate our scheme on the UltraSPARC IV+ processor. Our preliminary results using helper threads on the SPEC CPU2000 suite show gains of up to 22% on programs that suffer substa...
Yonghong Song, Spiros Kalogeropulos, Partha Tiruma
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where IEEEPACT
Authors Yonghong Song, Spiros Kalogeropulos, Partha Tirumalai
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