Parallelism-Aware Batch Scheduling: Enabling High-Performance and Fair Memory Controllers
- Onur Mutlu ,
- Thomas Moscibroda
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Uncontrolled interthread interference in main memory can destroy individual threads’ memory-level parallelism, effectively serializing the memory requests of a thread whose latencies would otherwise have largely overlapped, thereby reducing single-thread performance. PAR-BS, the parallelism-aware batch scheduler, preserves each thread’s memory-level parallelism, ensures fairness and starvation freedom, and supports system-level thread priorities.
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