Optimizing instruction TLB energy using software and hardware techniques

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Kadayif I., SIVASUBRAMANIAM A., KANDEMIR M., KANDIRAJU G., Chen G., Chen G.

ACM TRANSACTIONS ON DESIGN AUTOMATION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, cilt.10, sa.2, ss.229-257, 2005 (SCI-Expanded)

• Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
• Cilt numarası: 10 Sayı: 2
• Basım Tarihi: 2005
• Doi Numarası: 10.1145/1059876.1059879
• Dergi Adı: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON DESIGN AUTOMATION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS
• Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
• Sayfa Sayıları: ss.229-257
• Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Power consumption and power density for the Translation Look-aside Buffer (TLB) are important considerations not only in its design, but can have a consequence on cache design as well. After pointing out the importance of instruction TLB (iTLB) power optimization, this article embarks on a new philosophy for reducing the number of accesses to this structure. The overall idea is to keep a translation currently being used in a register and avoid going to the iTLB as far as possible-until there is a page change. We propose four different approaches for achieving this, and experimentally demonstrate that one of these schemes that uses a combination of compiler and hardware enhancements can reduce iTLB dynamic power by over 85% in most cases.