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A Survey of Recent Prefetching Techniques for Processor Caches

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: As the trends of process scaling make memory systems an even more crucial bottleneck, the importance of latency hiding techniques such as prefetching grows further. However, naively using prefetching can harm performance and energy efficiency and, hence, several factors and parameters need to be taken into account to fully realize its potential. In this article, we survey several recent techniques that aim to improve the implementation and effectiveness of prefetching. We characterize the techniques on several parameters to highlight their similarities and differences. The aim of this survey is to provide insights to researchers into working of prefetching techniques and spark interesting future work for improving the performance advantages of prefetching even further.

Source: ACM Computing Surveys

DOI: 10.1145/2907071

Author: Sparsh Mittal

Institution: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Language: English

Topic: Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques

Subfield: Hardware and Architecture

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research

OpenAlex ID: W2310426546

FWCI: 15.61

Cites: 114

Cited by: 119

Related to: 10