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| * Consistency | * Consistency | ||
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| + | ===== Lecture 29 (4/16 Wed.) ===== | ||
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| + | * Ordering of instructions | ||
| + | * Maintaining memory consistency when there are multiple threads and shared memory | ||
| + | * Need to ensure the semantic is not changed | ||
| + | * Making sire the shared data is properly locked when used | ||
| + | * Support mutual exclusion | ||
| + | * Ordering depends on when each processor is executed | ||
| + | * Debugging is also difficult (non-deterministic behavior) | ||
| + | * Weak consistency: global ordering when sync | ||
| + | * programmer hints where the synchronizations are | ||
| + | * Total store order model: global ordering only with store | ||
| + | * Cache coherence | ||
| + | * Can be done in the software level or hardware level | ||
| + | * Coherence protocol | ||
| + | * Need to ensure that all the processors see and update the correct state of the cache block | ||
| + | * Need to make sure that writes get propagated and serialized | ||
| + | * Simple protocol are not scalable (one point of synchrnization) | ||
| + | * Update vs. invalidate | ||
| + | * For invalidate, only the core that needs to read retains the correct copy | ||
| + | * Can lead to ping-ponging (tons of read/writes from several processors) | ||
| + | * For updates, bus becomes the bottleneck | ||
| + | * Snoopy bus | ||
| + | * Bus based, single point of serialization | ||
| + | * More efficient with small number of processors | ||
| + | * All cache snoop other caches read/write requests to keep the cache block coherent | ||
| + | * Directory based | ||
| + | * Single point of serialization per block | ||
| + | * Directory coordinate the coherency | ||
| + | * More scalable | ||
| + | * The directory keeps track of where the copies of each block resides | ||
| + | * Supply data on a read | ||
| + | * Invalide the block on a write | ||
| + | * Has an exclusive state | ||
| + | * MSI coherent protocol | ||
| + | * Slide number 56-57 | ||
| + | * Consume bus bandwidth (need an "exclusive" state | ||
| + | * MESI coherent protocal | ||
| + | * Add the exclusive state: this is the only cache copy and it is clean state to MSI | ||
| + | * Tradeoffs between snooping and directory based | ||
| + | * Slide 71 has a good summary on this | ||
| + | * MOESI | ||
| + | * Improvement over MESI protocol | ||
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| + | ===== Lecture 29 (4/18 Wed.) ===== | ||
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| + | * Interference | ||
| + | * Complexity of the memory scheduler | ||
| + | * Ranking/prioritization has cost | ||
| + | * Complex scheduler has higher latency | ||
| + | * Performance metric for multicore/multithead applications | ||
| + | * Speedup | ||
| + | * Slowdown | ||
| + | * Harmonic vs wrighted | ||
| + | * Fairness mertic | ||
| + | * Maximum slowdown | ||
| + | * Why does it make sense | ||
| + | * Any scenario that it does not make sense? | ||
| + | * Predictable performance | ||
| + | * Why is it important? | ||
| + | * In server environment, different jobs are on the same server | ||
| + | * In a mobile environment, there are multiple sources that can slowdown other sources | ||
| + | * How to relate slowdown with request service rate | ||
| + | * MISE: soft slowdown guarantee | ||
| + | * BDI | ||
| + | * Memory wall | ||
| + | * What is the concern regarding the memory wall | ||
| + | * Size of the cache on the die (CPU die) | ||
| + | * One possible solution: cache compression | ||
| + | * What is the problems of existing cache compression mechanism | ||
| + | * Some are too complex | ||
| + | * Decompression is in the critical path | ||
| + | * Need to decompress when reading the data -> decompression should not be in the critical path | ||
| + | * Important factor to the performance | ||
| + | * Software compression is not good enough to compress everything | ||
| + | * Zero value compression | ||
| + | * Simple | ||
| + | * Good compression ratio | ||
| + | * What is data does not have many zeroes | ||
| + | * Frequent value compression | ||
| + | * Some data appear fequently | ||
| + | * Simple and good compression ratio | ||
| + | * have to profile | ||
| + | * decompression is complex | ||
| + | * Frequent pattern compression | ||
| + | * Still to complex in terms of decompression | ||
| + | * Based delta compression | ||
| + | * Easy to decompress but retain the benefit of compression | ||
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