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Novel programming paradigms enable the concurrent execution and the dynamic run-time rescheduling of several competing applications on large heterogeneous multi-core systems. However, today the cache memory is still statically allocated at design time. This leads to a distribution of memory resources that is optimized for an average use case. This paper introduces adaptive cache structures to be able to cope with the agility of dynamic run-time systems on future heterogeneous multi-core platforms. To go beyond the state of the art, the cache model is an implemented HDL realization capable of dynamic run-time adaptations of various cache strategies, parameters and settings. Different design trade-offs are weighted against each other and a modular implementation is presented. This hardware representation makes it possible to deeply integrate the adaptive cache into an existing processor microarchitecture. The contribution of this paper is the application-specific run-time adaptation of the adaptive cache architecture that directly represents the available memory resources of the underlying hardware. The evaluation shows very efficient resource utilization while the cache set size is in- or decreased. Also, performance gains in terms of cache’s miss rate and application’s run-time are shown. The architecture’s capabilities of performing in a multi-core use case and the potential for future power savings are also presented in an application scenario.
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This research work is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the Transregio SFB Invasive Computing (DFG SFB/TRR89).
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Tradowsky, C., Cordero, E., Orsinger, C., Vesper, M., Becker, J. (2016). Adaptive Cache Structures. In: Hannig, F., Cardoso, J.M.P., Pionteck, T., Fey, D., Schröder-Preikschat, W., Teich, J. (eds) Architecture of Computing Systems – ARCS 2016. ARCS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9637. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30695-7_7
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