@article{ART002398196},
author={Do Cong Thuan and Gwang Bok Kim and Cheol Hong Kim},
title={Workload Characteristics-based L1 Data Cache Switching-off Mechanism for GPUs},
journal={Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information},
issn={1598-849X},
year={2018},
volume={23},
number={10},
pages={1-9},
doi={10.9708/jksci.2018.23.10.001}
TY - JOUR
AU - Do Cong Thuan
AU - Gwang Bok Kim
AU - Cheol Hong Kim
TI - Workload Characteristics-based L1 Data Cache Switching-off Mechanism for GPUs
JO - Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
PY - 2018
VL - 23
IS - 10
PB - The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
SP - 1
EP - 9
SN - 1598-849X
AB - Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) have become one of the most attractive platforms in exploiting high thread level parallelism with the support of new programming tools such as CUDA and OpenCL. Recent GPUs has applied cache hierarchy to support irregular memory access patterns; however, L1 data cache (L1D) exhibits poor efficiency in the GPU. This paper shows that the L1D does not always positively affect the applications in terms of performance and energy efficiency for the GPU. The performance of the GPU is even harmed by using the L1D for lots of applications. Our proposed technique exploits the characteristics of the currently-executed applications to predict the performance impact of the L1D on the GPU and then decides whether to continuously use the cache for the application or not. Our experimental results show that the proposed technique improves the GPU performance by 9.4% and saves up to 52.1% of the power consumption in the L1D.
KW - GPU;Cache Bypass;High Performance;Energy Efficiency;L1 Data Cache
DO - 10.9708/jksci.2018.23.10.001
ER -
Do Cong Thuan, Gwang Bok Kim and Cheol Hong Kim. (2018). Workload Characteristics-based L1 Data Cache Switching-off Mechanism for GPUs. Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information, 23(10), 1-9.
Do Cong Thuan, Gwang Bok Kim and Cheol Hong Kim. 2018, "Workload Characteristics-based L1 Data Cache Switching-off Mechanism for GPUs", Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information, vol.23, no.10 pp.1-9. Available from: doi:10.9708/jksci.2018.23.10.001
Do Cong Thuan, Gwang Bok Kim, Cheol Hong Kim "Workload Characteristics-based L1 Data Cache Switching-off Mechanism for GPUs" Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information 23.10 pp.1-9 (2018) : 1.
Do Cong Thuan, Gwang Bok Kim, Cheol Hong Kim. Workload Characteristics-based L1 Data Cache Switching-off Mechanism for GPUs. 2018; 23(10), 1-9. Available from: doi:10.9708/jksci.2018.23.10.001
Do Cong Thuan, Gwang Bok Kim and Cheol Hong Kim. "Workload Characteristics-based L1 Data Cache Switching-off Mechanism for GPUs" Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information 23, no.10 (2018) : 1-9.doi: 10.9708/jksci.2018.23.10.001
Do Cong Thuan; Gwang Bok Kim; Cheol Hong Kim. Workload Characteristics-based L1 Data Cache Switching-off Mechanism for GPUs. Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information, 23(10), 1-9. doi: 10.9708/jksci.2018.23.10.001
Do Cong Thuan; Gwang Bok Kim; Cheol Hong Kim. Workload Characteristics-based L1 Data Cache Switching-off Mechanism for GPUs. Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information. 2018; 23(10) 1-9. doi: 10.9708/jksci.2018.23.10.001
Do Cong Thuan, Gwang Bok Kim, Cheol Hong Kim. Workload Characteristics-based L1 Data Cache Switching-off Mechanism for GPUs. 2018; 23(10), 1-9. Available from: doi:10.9708/jksci.2018.23.10.001
Do Cong Thuan, Gwang Bok Kim and Cheol Hong Kim. "Workload Characteristics-based L1 Data Cache Switching-off Mechanism for GPUs" Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information 23, no.10 (2018) : 1-9.doi: 10.9708/jksci.2018.23.10.001
