A general framework for prefetch scheduling in linked data structures and its application to multi-chain prefetching

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 214-280

  Choi, Seungryul ^a,d   Kohout, Nicholas ^b,e   Pamnani, Sumit ^c   Kim, Dongkeun ^a,f   Yeung, Donald ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b EVI Technology   (United States)

^c ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

^d Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

^e EVI Technology   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Data prefetching; Memory parallelism; Pointer chasing code

Indexed keywords

DATA PREFETCHING; LINKED DATA STRUCTURES (LDS); MEMORY PARALLELISM; MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT POINTER CHAINS; POINTER-CHAISING CODE;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; CACHE MEMORY; CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA COMPRESSION; MARKOV PROCESSES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SCHEDULING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 2542441690     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/986533.986536     Document Type: Article

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