An Evaluation of Fine-Grain Producer-Initiated Communication in Cache-Coherent Multiprocessors

Compiler-directed cache prefetching has the potential to hide much of the high memory latency seen by current and future high-performance processors. However, prefetching is not without costs, particularly on a shared-memory multiprocessor. Prefetching ...

Both commercial and scientific workloads benefit from concurrency and exhibit data sharing across threads/processes. The resulting sharing patterns are often fine-grain, with the modified cache lines still residing in the writer's primary cache when ...

A traditional least-recently used (LRU) cache replacement policy fails to achieve the performance of the optimal replacement policy when cache blocks with diverse reuse characteristics interfere with each other. When multiple applications share a cache, ...