Proceedings of the eighteenth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Effect of page frame allocation pattern on bank conflicts in multi-core systems
Proceedings of the 2013 Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems
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The DRAM latency modeling is complex because most chips contain row-buffers and multiple banks to exploit patterns of DRAM accesses. As a result, the latency of DRAM access not only depends on the circuit timing parameters but also memory access patterns. This study derives an analytical model that predicts the DRAM access performance using DRAM timing and memory access pattern parameters. As a performance metric, the bank busy time of DRAM is used. The pattern parameters employed represent memory access characteristics such as the number of row-buffer misses, the number of read or write requests that hit the row-buffers, etc. The proposed model not only relates the DRAM access performance with the memory access pattern but also provides information for timing optimization of next generation DRAMs. The model is evaluated with SPLASH-2 benchmark by using cycle-accurate timing simulations with DDR3 timings. The evaluation results show that, in memory-bounded cases, the execution time is limited by bank utilization, not by the data bus occupation ratio.