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2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Power-Aware Dynamic Cache Partitioning for CMPs
verfasst von : Isao Kotera, Kenta Abe, Ryusuke Egawa, Hiroyuki Takizawa, Hiroaki Kobayashi
Erschienen in: Transactions on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers III
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Cache partitioning and power-gating schemes are major research topics to achieve a high-performance and low-power shared cache for next generation chip multiprocessors(CMPs). We propose a poweraware cache partitioning mechanism, which is a scheme to realize both low power and high performance using power-gating and cache partitioning at the same time. The proposed cache mechanism is composed of a way-allocation function and power control function; each function works based on the cache locality assessment. The performance evaluation results show that the proposed cache mechanism with a performanceoriented parameter setting can reduce energy consumption by 20% while keeping the performance, and the mechanism with an energy-oriented parameter setting can reduce 54% energy consumption with a performance degradation of 13%. The hardware implementation results indicate that the delay and area overheads to control the proposed mechanism are negligible, and therefore hardly affect both the entire chip design and performance.