Increasing power efficiency of multi-core network processors through data filtering

Gokhan Memik*, William H. Mangione-Smith

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We propose and evaluate a data filtering method to reduce the power consumption of high-end processors with multiple execution cores. Although the proposed method can be applied to a wide variety of multi-processor systems including MPPs, SMPs and any type of single-chip multiprocessor, we concentrate on Network Processors. The proposed method uses an execution unit called Data Filtering Engine that processes data with low temporal locality before it is placed on the system bus. The execution cores use locality to decide which load instructions have low temporal locality and which portion of the surrounding code should be off-loaded to the data filtering engine.Our technique reduces the power consumption, because a) the low temporal data is processed on the data filtering engine before it is placed onto the high capacitance system bus, and b) the conflict misses caused by low temporal data are reduced resulting in fewer accesses to the L2 cache. Specifically, we show that our technique reduces the bus accesses in representative applications by as much as 46.8% (26.5% on average) and reduces the overall power by as much as 15.6% (8.6% on average) on a single-core processor. It also improves the performance by as much as 76.7% (29.7% on average) for a processor with 16 execution cores.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, CASES '02
Pages108-116
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002
Event2002 International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, CASES '02 - Grenoble, France
Duration: Oct 8 2002Oct 11 2002

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, CASES '02

Other

Other2002 International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, CASES '02
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityGrenoble
Period10/8/0210/11/02

Keywords

  • Chip multiprocessors
  • Data locality
  • Network processors
  • Power reduction
  • Remote procedure call

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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