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	CVP: An energy-efficient indirect branch prediction with compiler-guided value pattern
	Tan, Mingxing ; Liu, Xianhua ; Tong, Dong ; Cheng, Xu
	2012
英文摘要	Indirect branch prediction is becoming increasingly important in modern high-performance processors. However, previous indirect branch predictors either require a significant amount of hardware storage and complexity, or heavily rely on the expensive manual profiling. In this paper, we propose the Compiler-Guided Value Pattern (CVP) prediction, an energy-efficient and accurate indirect branch prediction via compiler-microarchitecture cooperation. The key of CVP prediction is to use the compiler-guided value pattern as the correlated information to hint the dynamic predictor. The value pattern reflects the pattern regularity of the value correlation, and thus significantly improves the prediction accuracy even in the case of deep pipeline stage or long memory latency. CVP prediction relies on the compiler to automatically identify the primary value correlation based on three high-level program substructures: virtual function calls, switch-case statements and function pointer calls. The compiler-identified information is then fed back to the dynamic predictor and is further used to hint the indirect branch prediction at runtime. We show that CVP prediction can be implemented in modern processors with little extra hardware support. Evaluations show that CVP prediction can significantly improve the prediction accuracy by 46% over the traditional BTB-based prediction, leading to the performance improvement of 20%. Compared with the state-of-the-art aggressive ITTAGE and VBBI predictors, CVP prediction can improve the performance by 5.5% and 4.2% respectively. Copyright 2012 ACM.; EI; 0
语种	英语
DOI标识	10.1145/2304576.2304593
内容类型	其他
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/412326]
专题	信息科学技术学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tan, Mingxing,Liu, Xianhua,Tong, Dong,et al. CVP: An energy-efficient indirect branch prediction with compiler-guided value pattern. 2012-01-01.

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