Checkpoint processing and recovery: Towards scalable large instruction window processors (2003)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the 36th International Symposium on Microarchitecture |
| Citations: | 142 - 8 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Akkary03checkpointprocessing,
author = {Haitham Akkary and Ravi Rajwar and Srikanth T. Srinivasan},
title = {Checkpoint processing and recovery: Towards scalable large instruction window processors},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 36th International Symposium on Microarchitecture},
year = {2003},
pages = {423--434}
}
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Abstract
Large instruction window processors achieve high performance by exposing large amounts of instruction level parallelism. However, accessing large hardware structures typically required to buffer and process such instruction window sizes significantly degrade the cycle time. This paper proposes a novel Checkpoint Processing and Recovery (CPR) microarchitecture, and shows how to implement a large instruction window processor without requiring large structures thus permitting a high clock frequency. We focus on four critical aspects of a microarchitecture: 1) scheduling instructions, 2) recovering from branch mispredicts, 3) buffering a large number of stores and forwarding data from stores to any dependent load, and 4) reclaiming physical registers. While scheduling window size is important, we show the performance of large instruction windows to be more sensitive to the other three design issues. Our CPR proposal incorporates novel microarchitectural schemes for addressing these design issues—a selective checkpoint mechanism for recovering from mispredicts, a hierarchical store queue organization for fast store-load forwarding, and an effective algorithm for aggressive physical register reclamation. Our proposals allow a processor to realize performance gains due to instruction windows of thousands of instructions without requiring large cyclecritical hardware structures. 1.
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