Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/6577
Title: Early register deallocation mechanisms using checkpointed register files
Authors: Ergin, Oğuz
Balkan, Deniz
Ponomarev, Dmitry
Ghose, Kanad
Keywords: superscalar processors
register file optimization
precise interrupts
Publisher: IEEE Computer Soc
Abstract: Modern superscalar microprocessors need sizable register files to support a large number of in-flight instructions for exploiting instruction level parallelism (ILP). An alternative to building large register files is to use a smaller number of registers, but manage them more effectively. More efficient management of registers can also result in higher performance if the reduction of the register file size is not the goal. Traditional register file management mechanisms deallocate a physical register only when the next instruction writing to the same destination architectural register commits. In this paper, we propose several techniques for deallocating physical registers much earlier. Our designs rely on the use of a checkpointed register file (CRF), where a local shadow copy of each bitcell is used to temporarily save the values of the early deallocated registers should they be needed to recover from branch mispredictions or to reconstruct the precise state after exceptions or interrupts. The proposed techniques try to release registers as soon as possible and are more aggressive than the previously proposed schemes for early deallocation of registers.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.2006.145
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/6577
ISSN: 0018-9340
1557-9956
Appears in Collections:Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü / Department of Computer Engineering
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