Sujit Mahto

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
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Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Processor architecture and microarchitecture · 88% Energy-efficient computing · 12%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Processor architecture and microarchitecture › value prediction
load value prediction
0.812024
Constable: Improving Performance and Power Efficiency by Safely Eliminating Load Instruction Execution · ISCA 2024
Processor architecture and microarchitecture › memory system microarchitecture
memory renaming
0.812024
Constable: Improving Performance and Power Efficiency by Safely Eliminating Load Instruction Execution · ISCA 2024
Energy-efficient computing
dynamic power reduction
0.212024
Constable: Improving Performance and Power Efficiency by Safely Eliminating Load Instruction Execution · ISCA 2024
Processor architecture and microarchitecture
instruction-level parallelism
0.212024
Constable: Improving Performance and Power Efficiency by Safely Eliminating Load Instruction Execution · ISCA 2024
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2024 Constable: Improving Performance and Power Efficiency by Safely Eliminating Load Instruction Execution
abstract
Load instructions often limit instruction-level parallelism (ILP) in modern processors due to data and resource dependences they cause. Prior techniques like Load Value Prediction (LVP) and Memory Renaming (MRN) mitigate load data dependence by predicting the data value of a load instruction. However, they fail to mitigate load resource dependence as the predicted load instruction gets executed nonetheless (even on a correct prediction), which consumes hard-to-scale pipeline resources that otherwise could have been used to execute other load instructions. Our goal in this work is to improve ILP by mitigating both load data dependence and resource dependence. To this end, we propose a purely-microarchitectural technique called Constable, that safely eliminates the execution of load instructions. Constable dynamically identifies load instructions that have repeatedly fetched the same data from the same load address. We call such loads likely-stable. For every likely-stable load, Constable (1) tracks modifications to its source architectural registers and memory location via lightweight hardware structures, and (2) eliminates the execution of subsequent instances of the load instruction until there is a write to its source register or a store or snoop request to its load address. Our extensive evaluation using a wide variety of 90 workloads shows that Constable improves performance by $5.1 \%$ while reducing the core dynamic power consumption by $3.4 \%$ on average over a strong baseline system that implements MRN and other dynamic instruction optimizations (e.g., move and zero elimination, constant and branch folding). In presence of 2-way simultaneous multithreading (SMT), Constable’s performance improvement increases to $8.8 \%$ over the baseline system. When combined with a state-of-the-art load value predictor (EVES), Constable provides an additional $3.7 \%$ and $7.8 \%$ average performance benefit over the load value predictor alone, in the baseline system without and with 2-way SMT, respectively.
Rahul Bera, Adithya Ranganathan, Joydeep Rakshit, Sujit Mahto, Anant Nori, Jayesh Gaur, Ataberk Olgun, Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, Mohammad Sadrosadati, Sreenivas Subramoney, Onur Mutlu
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