{"title":"高发布率处理器的路径预测","authors":"Kishore N. Menezes, Sumedh W. Sathaye, T. Conte","doi":"10.1109/PACT.1997.644014","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Rapid developments in the exploitation of instruction-level parallelism are prompting deeper-pipelined, wider machines with high issue rates. Speculative execution has been used to provide the required issue bandwidth. Current methods predict a single branch at a time. Performance improvement is possible by predicting multiple branches in a single cycle. The paper presents a technique to predict paths in a single access. The correlation of a path with the branches executed before it, is exploited to provide high prediction accuracy. A novel path prediction automaton is presented The automaton is easily scalable to predict long paths through arbitrary subgraphs. It also predicts a path through a subgraph in a single access. The automaton requires only n+1 bits for predicting the 2/sup n/ paths in a subgraph of depth n. The performance of the proposed path predictor is measured. The full path accuracy (accuracy in predicting all the branches in a path) is higher than or equal to other predictors found in the literature. This performance is achieved at a low hardware cost. The scalability single access prediction and low hardware cost of the path prediction technique presented in the paper make it suitable for machines requiring high issue bandwidth.","PeriodicalId":177411,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1997 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"12","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Path prediction for high issue-rate processors\",\"authors\":\"Kishore N. Menezes, Sumedh W. Sathaye, T. Conte\",\"doi\":\"10.1109/PACT.1997.644014\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"Rapid developments in the exploitation of instruction-level parallelism are prompting deeper-pipelined, wider machines with high issue rates. Speculative execution has been used to provide the required issue bandwidth. Current methods predict a single branch at a time. Performance improvement is possible by predicting multiple branches in a single cycle. The paper presents a technique to predict paths in a single access. The correlation of a path with the branches executed before it, is exploited to provide high prediction accuracy. A novel path prediction automaton is presented The automaton is easily scalable to predict long paths through arbitrary subgraphs. It also predicts a path through a subgraph in a single access. The automaton requires only n+1 bits for predicting the 2/sup n/ paths in a subgraph of depth n. The performance of the proposed path predictor is measured. The full path accuracy (accuracy in predicting all the branches in a path) is higher than or equal to other predictors found in the literature. This performance is achieved at a low hardware cost. The scalability single access prediction and low hardware cost of the path prediction technique presented in the paper make it suitable for machines requiring high issue bandwidth.\",\"PeriodicalId\":177411,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"Proceedings 1997 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques\",\"volume\":\"27 1\",\"pages\":\"0\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":0.0000,\"publicationDate\":\"1997-11-11\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"12\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"Proceedings 1997 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"1085\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACT.1997.644014\",\"RegionNum\":0,\"RegionCategory\":null,\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"\",\"JCRName\":\"\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings 1997 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACT.1997.644014","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
Rapid developments in the exploitation of instruction-level parallelism are prompting deeper-pipelined, wider machines with high issue rates. Speculative execution has been used to provide the required issue bandwidth. Current methods predict a single branch at a time. Performance improvement is possible by predicting multiple branches in a single cycle. The paper presents a technique to predict paths in a single access. The correlation of a path with the branches executed before it, is exploited to provide high prediction accuracy. A novel path prediction automaton is presented The automaton is easily scalable to predict long paths through arbitrary subgraphs. It also predicts a path through a subgraph in a single access. The automaton requires only n+1 bits for predicting the 2/sup n/ paths in a subgraph of depth n. The performance of the proposed path predictor is measured. The full path accuracy (accuracy in predicting all the branches in a path) is higher than or equal to other predictors found in the literature. This performance is achieved at a low hardware cost. The scalability single access prediction and low hardware cost of the path prediction technique presented in the paper make it suitable for machines requiring high issue bandwidth.