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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Most Progress Made Algorithm: Combating Synchronization Induced Performance Loss on Salvaged Chip Multi-Processors

Dutson, Jacob 01 May 2013 (has links)
Recent increases in hard fault rates in modern chip multi-processors have led to a variety of approaches to try and save manufacturing yield. Among these are: fine-grain fault tolerance (such as error correction coding, redundant cache lines, and redundant functional units), and large-grain fault tolerance (such as disabling of faulty cores, adding extra cores, and core salvaging techniques). This paper considers the case of core salvaging techniques and the heterogeneous per- formance introduced when these techniques have some salvaged and some non-faulty cores. It proposes a hypervisor-based hardware thread scheduler, triggered by detection of spin locks and thread imbalance, that mitigates the loss of throughput resulting from this het- erogeneity. Specifically, a new algorithm, called Most ProgressMade algorithm, reduces the number of synchronization locks held on a salvaged core and balances the time each thread in an application spends running on that core. For some benchmarks, the results show as much as a 2.68x increase in performance over a salvaged chip multi-processor without this technique.

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