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  • Instruction Prefetch for Improving GPGPU Performance

    Jianli CAO  Zhikui CHEN  Yuxin WANG  He GUO  Pengcheng WANG  

     
    PAPER-VLSI Design Technology and CAD

      Pubricized:
    2020/11/16
      Vol:
    E104-A No:5
      Page(s):
    773-785

    Like many processors, GPGPU suffers from memory wall. The traditional solution for this issue is to use efficient schedulers to hide long memory access latency or use data prefetch mech-anism to reduce the latency caused by data transfer. In this paper, we study the instruction fetch stage of GPU's pipeline and analyze the relationship between the capacity of GPU kernel and instruction miss rate. We improve the next line prefetch mechanism to fit the SIMT model of GPU and determine the optimal parameters of prefetch mechanism on GPU through experiments. The experimental result shows that the prefetch mechanism can achieve 12.17% performance improvement on average. Compared with the solution of enlarging I-Cache, prefetch mechanism has the advantages of more beneficiaries and lower cost.