Re: High-powered File-renaming Machine
Joseph Zyiuahndy
In computer architecture, register renaming is a technique that abstracts logical registers from physical registers.Every logical register has a set of physical registers associated with it.When a machine language instruction refers to a particular logical register, the processor transposes this name to one specific physical register on the fly.The physical registers are opaque and cannot be referenced directly but only via the canonical names.
Machine language programs specify reads and writes to a limited set of registers specified by the instruction set architecture (ISA).For instance, the Alpha ISA specifies 32 integer registers, each 64 bits wide, and 32 floating-point registers, each 64 bits wide.These are the architectural registers.Programs written for processors running the Alpha instruction set will specify operations reading and writing those 64 registers.If a programmer stops the program in a debugger, they can observe the contents of these 64 registers (and a few status registers) to determine the progress of the machine.
In all renaming schemes, the machine converts the architectural registers referenced in the instruction stream into tags.Where the architectural registers might be specified by 3 to 5 bits, the tags are usually a 6 to 8 bit number.The rename file must have a read port for every input of every instruction renamed every cycle, and a write port for every output of every instruction renamed every cycle.Because the size of a register file generally grows as the square of the number of ports, the rename file is usually physically large and consumes significant power.
In the tag-indexed register file style, there is one large register file for data values, containing one register for every tag.For example, if the machine has 80 physical registers, then it would use 7 bit tags.48 of the possible tag values in this case are unused.
The physical register files used by reservation stations usually collapse unused entries in parallel with the issue queue they serve, which makes these register files larger in aggregate, and consume more power, and more complicated than the simpler register files used in a tag-indexed scheme.Worse yet, every entry in each reservation station can be written by every result bus, so that a reservation-station machine with, e.g., 8 issue queue entries per functional unit will typically have 9 times as many bypass networks as an equivalent tag-indexed machine.Consequently, result forwarding consumes much more power and area than in a tag-indexed design.
Furthermore, the reservation station scheme has four places (Future File, Reservation Station, Reorder Buffer and Architectural File) where a result value can be stored, whereas the tag-indexed scheme has just one (the physical register file).Because the results from the functional units, broadcast to all these storage locations, must reach a much larger number of locations in the machine than in the tag-indexed scheme, this function consumes more power, area, and time.Still, in machines equipped with very accurate branch prediction schemes and if execute latencies are a major concern, reservation stations can work remarkably well.
Early out-of-order machines did not separate the renaming and ROB/PRF storage functions.For that matter, some of the earliest, such as Sohi's RUU or the Metaflow DCAF, combined scheduling, renaming, and storage all in the same structure.
However, earlier machines used content-addressable memory (CAM) in the renamer.E.g., the HPSM RAT, or Register Alias Table, essentially used a CAM on the logical register number in combination with different versions of the register.
This doesn't help my case (as I just posted) but it may help you. A free, very powerful file-renaming utility that would definitely be able to restore all your filenames. Once you get the script right, which is done through drag-and-drop events based on search and replace, and the ability test before executing (along with undo), you could run it on a hundred-thousand files and they'd all be fixed in seconds.
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Sometimes, however, a single action simply isn't enough and that is where our multi-step renaming features comes in. It lets you combine multiple simple actions to create a lean mean renaming machine.
Abstract: Simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) processors improve system performance by allowing concurrent execution of multiple independent threads with shared key resources. Physical register file, shared among the threads in real-time, is one of the most critical resources in deciding overall system performance. Disproportional distribution of registers among the threads may easily hamper normal processing of some threads. In this paper, we develop a machine learning algorithm to efficiently allocate registers among concurrent executing threads based on current resource utilisation circumstances. An offline training process is first employed to establish a well-trained neural network which is then applied to dynamically adjust the resource distribution in real-time. Our experiment results on M-sim, which is a multi-threaded micro-architectural simulation environment, show that our proposed technique significantly improves the average system throughput by up to 42% without sacrificing execution fairness among the threads.
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