ASPLOS IV Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
An effective on-chip preloading scheme to reduce data access penalty
Proceedings of the 1991 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Design and evaluation of a compiler algorithm for prefetching
ASPLOS V Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
A performance study of software and hardware data prefetching schemes
ISCA '94 Proceedings of the 21st annual international symposium on Computer architecture
SPAID: software prefetching in pointer- and call-intensive environments
Proceedings of the 28th annual international symposium on Microarchitecture
Compiler-based prefetching for recursive data structures
Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Prefetching using Markov predictors
Proceedings of the 24th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
MICRO 31 Proceedings of the 31st annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
Effective jump-pointer prefetching for linked data structures
ISCA '99 Proceedings of the 26th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Execution-based prediction using speculative slices
ISCA '01 Proceedings of the 28th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
ISCA '01 Proceedings of the 28th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Dead-block prediction & dead-block correlating prefetchers
ISCA '01 Proceedings of the 28th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
PLDI '02 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2002 Conference on Programming language design and implementation
Dynamic speculative precomputation
Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
A stateless, content-directed data prefetching mechanism
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Comparing and Combining Read Miss Clustering and Software Prefetching
Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
Pointer cache assisted prefetching
Proceedings of the 35th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
Lockup-free instruction fetch/prefetch cache organization
ISCA '81 Proceedings of the 8th annual symposium on Computer Architecture
Guided region prefetching: a cooperative hardware/software approach
Proceedings of the 30th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Improving the Effectiveness of Software Prefetching with Adaptive Execution
PACT '96 Proceedings of the 1996 Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
Compiler-Directed Content-Aware Prefetching for Dynamic Data Structures
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
AC/DC: An Adaptive Data Cache Prefetcher
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
MicroLib: A Case for the Quantitative Comparison of Micro-Architecture Mechanisms
Proceedings of the 37th annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
Pinpointing Representative Portions of Large Intel® Itanium® Programs with Dynamic Instrumentation
Proceedings of the 37th annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
Tolerating memory latency through push prefetching for pointer-intensive applications
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
Exploring the limits of prefetching
IBM Journal of Research and Development - Electrochemical technology in microelectronics
Data Cache Prefetching Using a Global History Buffer
HPCA '04 Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture
A Self-Repairing Prefetcher in an Event-Driven Dynamic Optimization Framework
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
Memory Prefetching Using Adaptive Stream Detection
Proceedings of the 39th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
Improving hash join performance through prefetching
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
HPCA '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE 13th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture
A compiler-directed data prefetching scheme for chip multiprocessors
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
POWER4 system microarchitecture
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Orchestrated scheduling and prefetching for GPGPUs
Proceedings of the 40th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture
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In emerging and future high-end processor systems, tolerating increasing cache miss latency and properly managing memory bandwidth will be critical to achieving high performance. Prefetching, in both hardware and software, is among our most important available techniques for doing so; yet, we claim that prefetching is perhaps also the least well-understood. Thus, the goal of this study is to develop a novel, foundational understanding of both the benefits and limitations of hardware and software prefetching. Our study includes: source code-level analysis, to help in understanding the practical strengths and weaknesses of compiler- and software-based prefetching; a study of the synergistic and antagonistic effects between software and hardware prefetching; and an evaluation of hardware prefetching training policies in the presence of software prefetching requests. We use both simulation and measurement on real systems. We find, for instance, that although there are many opportunities for compilers to prefetch much more aggressively than they currently do, there is also a tangible risk of interference with training existing hardware prefetching mechanisms. Taken together, our observations suggest new research directions for cooperative hardware/software prefetching.