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CAL
2010
13 years 8 months ago
SMT-Directory: Efficient Load-Load Ordering for SMT
Memory models like SC, TSO, and PC enforce load-load ordering, requiring that loads from any single thread appear to occur in program order to all other threads. Out-of-order execu...
A. Hilton, A. Roth
CAL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
A Dynamic Pressure-Aware Associative Placement Strategy for Large Scale Chip Multiprocessors
This paper describes dynamic pressure-aware associative placement (DPAP), a novel distributed cache management scheme for large-scale chip multiprocessors. Our work is motivated by...
Mohammad Hammoud, Sangyeun Cho, Rami G. Melhem
CAL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
A Case for Alternative Nested Paging Models for Virtualized Systems
Address translation often emerges as a critical performance bottleneck for virtualized systems and has recently been the impetus for hardware paging mechanisms. These mechanisms ap...
Giang Hoang, Chang Bae, Jack Lange, Lide Zhang, Pe...