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buzzword [2015/02/12 19:18]
kevincha [Lecture 11 (2/11 Mon.)]
buzzword [2015/02/16 19:16]
rachata
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   * Checkpointing   * Checkpointing
     * Advantages?     * Advantages?
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 +===== Lecture 12 (2/13 Fri.) =====
 +
 +  * Renaming
 +  * Register renaming table
 +  * Predictor (branch predictor, cache line predictor ...)
 +  * Power budget (and its importance)
 +  * Architectural state, precise state
 +  * Memory dependence is known dynamically
 +  * Register state is not shared across threads/​processors
 +  * Memory state is shared across threads/​processors
 +  * How to maintain speculative memory states
 +  * Write buffers (helps simplify the process of checking the reorder buffer)
 +  * Overall OoO mechanism
 +    * What are other ways of eliminating dispatch stalls
 +    * Dispatch when the sources are ready
 +    * Retired instructions make the source available
 +    * Register renaming
 +    * Reservation station
 +      * What goes into the reservation station
 +      * Tags required in the reservation station
 +    * Tomasulo'​s algorithm
 +    * Without precise exception, OoO is hard to debug
 +    * Arch. register ID
 +    * Examples in the slides
 +      * Slides 28 --> register renaming
 +      * Slides 30-35 --> Exercise (also on the board)
 +        * This will be usefull for the midterm
 +    * Register aliasing table
 +    * Broadcasting tags
 +    * Using dataflow
 +
 +
 +===== Lecture 13 (2/16 Mon.) =====
 +
 +  * OoO --> Restricted Dataflow
 +    * Extracting parallelism
 +    * What are the bottlenecks?​
 +      * Issue width
 +      * Dispatch width
 +      * Parallelism in the program
 +    * What does it mean to be restricted data flow
 +      * Still visible as a Von Neumann model
 +    * Where does the efficiency come from?
 +    * Size of the scheduling windors/​reorder buffer. Tradeoffs? What make sense?
 +  * Load/store handling
 +    * Would like to schedule them out of order, but make them visible in-order
 +    * When do you schedule the load/store instructions?​
 +    * Can we predict if load/store are dependent?
 +    * This is one of the most complex structure of the load/store handling
 +    * What information can be used to predict these load/store optimization?​
 +  * Centralized vs. distributed?​ What are the tradeoffs?
 +  * How to handle when there is a misprediction/​recovery
 +    * OoO + branch prediction?
 +    * Speculatively update the history register
 +      * When do you update the GHR?
 +  * Token dataflow arch.
 +    * What are tokens?
 +    * How to match tokens
 +    * Tagged token dataflow arch.
 +    * What are the tradeoffs?
 +    * Difficulties?​
  
  
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