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Branch target predictor

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Micro BTB: A High Performance and Storage Efficient Last-Level Branch Target Buffer for Servers

Vishal Gupta

High-performance branch target buffers (BTBs) and the L1I cache are key to high-performance front-end. Modern branch predictors are highly accurate, but with an increase in code footprint in modern-day server workloads, BTB and L1I misses are still frequen ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Unified prefetching into instruction cache and branch target buffer

Babak Falsafi, Boris Robert Grot, Ilknur Cansu Kaynak

A system and method of coupling a Branch Target Buffer (BTB) content of a BTB with an instruction cache content of an instruction cache. The method includes: tagging a plurality of target buffer entries that belong to branches within a same instruction blo ...

2017

Shared Frontend for Manycore Server Processors

Ilknur Cansu Kaynak

Instruction-supplymechanisms, namely the branch predictors and instruction prefetchers, exploit recurring control flow in an application to predict the applicationâs future control flow and provide the core with a useful instruction stream to execute in ...

EPFL2015

Confluence: unified instruction supply for scale-out servers

Babak Falsafi, Boris Robert Grot, Ilknur Cansu Kaynak

Multi-megabyte instruction working sets of server workloads defy the capacities of latency-critical instruction-supply components of a core; the instruction cache (L1-I) and the branch target buffer (BTB). Recent work has proposed dedicated prefetching tec ...

ACM Press2015

GPU Acceleration for Simulating Massively Parallel Many-Core Platforms

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Martino Ruggiero, Shivani Raghav

Emerging massively parallel architectures such as a general-purpose processor plus many-core programmable accelerators are creating an increasing demand for novel methods to perform their architectural simulation. Most state-of-the-art simulation technolog ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Temporal instruction fetch streaming

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman

L1 instruction-cache misses pose a critical performance bottleneck in commercial server workloads. Cache access latency constraints preclude L1 instruction caches large enough to capture the application, library, and OS instruction working sets of these wo ...

2008

Last-touch correlated data streaming

Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman

Recent research advocates address-correlating predictors to identify cache block addresses for prefetch. Unfortunately, address-correlating predictors require correlation data storage proportional in size to a program's active memory footprint. As a result ...

2007

Dynamic feature selection for hardware prediction

Babak Falsafi

Most hardware predictors are table based (e.g. two-level branch predictors) and have exponential size growth in the number of input bits or features (e.g. previous branch outcomes). This growth severely limits the amount of predictive information that such ...

2006

Dynamic Data Dependence Tracking and Its Application to Branch Prediction

Lei Chen

To continue to improve processor performance, microarchitects seek to increase the effective instruction level parallelism (ILP) that can be exploited in applications. A fundamental limit to improving ILP is data dependences among instructions. If data dep ...

2003

Using Cohort-Scheduling to Enhance Server Performance

James Richard Larus

A server application is commonly organized as a collection of concurrent threads, each of which executes the code necessary to process a request. This software architecture, which causes frequent control transfers between unrelated pieces of code, decrease ...

Usenix2002