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Computer Architecture Processing of control transfer instructions, part II

Computer Architecture Processing of control transfer instructions, part II. Ola Flygt Växjö University http://w3.msi.vxu.se/users/ofl/ Ola.Flygt@msi.vxu.se +46 470 70 86 49. Outline. 8.4.4 Extent of speculativeness Recocery from misprediction 8.4.5 Branch penalty

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Computer Architecture Processing of control transfer instructions, part II

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  1. Computer ArchitectureProcessing of control transfer instructions, part II Ola Flygt Växjö University http://w3.msi.vxu.se/users/ofl/ Ola.Flygt@msi.vxu.se +46 470 70 86 49

  2. Outline • 8.4.4 • Extent of speculativeness • Recocery from misprediction • 8.4.5 Branch penalty • 8.5 Multiway branching • 8.6 Guarded Execution CH01

  3. Extent of speculative processing

  4. Extent of speculative processing

  5. Recovery from a misprediction: Basic Tasks

  6. Necessary activities to allow or to shorten recovery from a misprediction

  7. Frequently employed schemes for shortening recovery from a misprediction

  8. shortening recovery from a misprediction: needs

  9. Using two instruction buffers in the supersparc to shorten recovery from a misprediction:

  10. Using three instruction buffers in the Nx586 to shorten recovery from a misprediction:

  11. 8.4.5 Branch penalty for taken guesses depends onbranch target accessing schemes

  12. Compute/fetch scheme for accessing branch targets {IFAR vs. PC}

  13. BTAC scheme for accessing branch targets {associative search for BA, if found get BTA} {0-cycle branch: BA=BA-4}

  14. BTIC scheme: store next BTA

  15. BTIC scheme: calculate next BTA

  16. Successor index in the I-cache scheme to access the branch target path {index: next I, or target I}

  17. Successor index in the I-cache scheme: e.g. The microachitecture of the UltraSparc

  18. Predecode unit: detects branches, BTA, make predictions (based on compiler’s hint bit), set up I-cache Next address

  19. Branch target accessing trends

  20. 8.5 Multiway branching: {two IFA’s or PC’s}

  21. Threefold multiway branching: only one correct path!

  22. 8.6 Guarded Execution • a means to eliminate branches • by conditional operate instructions • IF the condition associated with the instruction is met, • THEN perform the specified operation • ELSE do not perform the operation • e.g. original • beg r1, label // if (r1) = 0 branch to label • move r2, r3 // move (r2) into r3 • label: … • e.g. guarded • cmovne r1, r2, r3 // if (r1) != 0, move (r2) into r3 • … • Convert control dependencies into data dependencies

  23. Eliminated branches by full and restricted guarding {full: all instruction guarded, restricted: ALU inst guarded}

  24. Guarded Execution: Disadvantages • guarding transforms instructions from both the taken and the not-taken paths into guard instruction • increase number of instructions • by 33% for full guarding • by 8% for restricted guarding • {more instructions more time and space} • guarding requires additional hardware resourcesif an increase in processing time is to be avoided • VLIW

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