Dead-block prediction & dead-block correlating prefetchers

AC Lai, C Fide, B Falsafi - ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, 2001 - dl.acm.org
Dead-block correlating prefetchers In this paper, we propose the Dead-Block Correlating
Prefetchers (DBCPs), that predict … last reference, and subsequently predict and prefetch a new …

Sampling dead block prediction for last-level caches

SM Khan, Y Tian, DA Jimenez - 2010 43rd Annual IEEE/ACM …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… This paper introduces sampling dead block prediction, a technique that samples program …
paper presents dead block prediction technique based on sampling. Previous dead block

Dead page and dead block predictors: Cleaning tlbs and caches together

C Mazumdar, P Mitra, A Basu - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… information to guide a simple dead block predictor in LLC. This … page predictor and a correlating
dead block predictor with a … predictor for LLT and then the LLC dead block predictor that …

Leeway: Addressing variability in dead-block prediction for last-level caches

P Faldu, B Grot - 2017 26th International Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… As a step in that direction, we introduce Leeway, a dead block prediction scheme leveraging
live distance - a new metric for capturing temporal reuse behavior using stack distance. By …

Energy savings via dead sub-block prediction

MAZ Alves, E Ebrahimi, VT Narasiman… - 2012 IEEE 24th …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… dead sub-block predictor design on a … predictor in any cache level), and by 5% compared
to a technique that turns off dead lines as predicted by a state-of-the-art dead block predictor [6]…

Dead block replacement and bypass with a sampling predictor

DA Jiménez - JWAC 2010-1st JILP Worshop on Computer …, 2010 - inria.hal.science
… policy driven by dead block prediction. A … is predicted to be “dead on arrival,” ie, it will not
be accessed again after it is placed in the cache, then it can bypass the cache. The predictor is …

Cache bursts: A new approach for eliminating dead blocks and increasing cache efficiency

H Liu, M Ferdman, J Huh… - 2008 41st IEEE/ACM …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
dead-block predictions at different points during the dead time of a block. Making dead-block
predictions … the best tradeoff between timeliness and prediction accuracy/coverage. Prior …

Llc dead block prediction considered not useful

P Faldu, B Grot - 13th Workshop on Duplicating, Deconstructing …, 2016 - research.ed.ac.uk
… of dead block prediction over … be predicted without a DBP scheme. Moreover, we show that
blocks that experience LLC hits and are dead block predicted often suffer from low prediction

Global dead-block management for task-parallel programs

M Manivannan, M Pericás, V Papaefstathiou… - ACM Transactions on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
… Existing dead-block prediction schemes take decisions locally for each cache level and
do not efficiently manage the entire cache hierarchy. This article introduces runtime-orchestrated …

Using dead blocks as a virtual victim cache

SM Khan, DA Jiménez, D Burger, B Falsafi - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
… In this section we discuss a new dead block predictor based on the reference trace predictor
of Lai et al… We use our skewed dead block predictor to drive a replacement policy in which a …