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I wanted to share with you all our story, a very real story that happened in May 2017, from a point of view that isn't often heard about, an Auntie to a still born baby, our baby Mia.
My sister and I have always been so very close with just 21 months between us, she's my best friend, and we share pretty much everything. From the moment she sent the photo of a positive line on the test, my sisters baby was already in my head and heart. I was Auntie Shell, teaching her ballet, and sharing so many precious moments with her and my sister, she was going to some how be apart of me in a funny way( thats how close we are)
I will never forget 'that day', my sister hadn't called after the scan to say all was ok. I'd realised that I had not heard from her or her other half for about 2 and a half hours, so I picked up the phone and called, expecting them to be at home chilling out.
When I called he answered the phone:
"Hi, you alright?" I said,
"We've lost the baby" he said,
"WHAT" I quickly said again
"We've lost the baby" he repeated
"She's dead, there's no heart beat, we're leaving the hospital now, we will call when home"
That very moment the walls to my flat closed in on me; was this an awful prank? Starting to wish so hard that it was, my heart felt pain like no pain ever felt before, the kind where I think it actually hurt to breath. My heart was actually aching, all of a sudden I felt totally lost. All our plans for this little girl being born in around 4 weeks time had suddenly vanished, my future of teaching her ballet, having her for sleep overs, watching her play with her cousin, getting baby cuddles and the joy of my sister becoming a mum GONE!!
I quickly rung for someone to come over to look after my little girl so I could see my sister. We live opposite the hospital and without knowing my sister and her other half had come straight to mine and I met them outside. I will never forget the looks on there faces, needing some form of comfort, anything to make the pain that they were feeling stop, we all embraced, tears streaming down our eyes, touching the bump which we knew wouldn't kick out at us again. The questions we all had were... why?! What now?! How could this happen?! How can we even carry on?!
I was mourning for my sisters baby, and for her, worrying about how she was going to get through this awful time (would she even get through it).
It suddenly dawned on us all that we would have to let people know, why she wouldn't be in work tomorrow, why there will be no baby shower, telling grandparents that they're not going to be grandparents, letting friends know there will to no exciting "I'm in labour news"
Such a heart break for all, but most of all these 2 parents.
Overnight I start googling how fast baby needs to come out, it stated somewhere babies who have died in the womb can poison the mother. I then start fearing losing my sister, knowing already apart of her has died, the smiles and laughter her bubbly personality all gone!! How can something so cruel happen to her and her partner.
That night crying myself to sleep knowing she would be also, knowing that her hurting is even more than my hurting, how I was feeling so low and in so much pain, with the awful feeling of heaviness all over me. Waking up in the morning with that huge realisation of yes it did happen, it hasn't gone away, starting the heart ache all over again.
Taking a deep breath, I messaged my sister seeing if she was awake,
of course she was, wide awake and hurting. The thought of the next step was so final. I think over-night we all tried to convince ourselves that they had got it wrong and we all felt another scan was needed before taking 'THAT PILL', the pill that when taken all hopes of this being an awful nightmare were shattered, that this wasn't going to go away, that this pill was going to make the baby come and that this precious, loved, baby girl was not going to be crying.
'Going into hospital'
It was one of the hardest walks I've ever had to make, walking my sister and her fiancé towards the delivery suite, dreading seeing any pregnant woman or babies for the sake of my sister.
We got to the doors and all just hysterically burst into tears, immediately we were whisked off to the SANDS ROOM by a midwife who I will never forget, an amazing lady who listened, answered, understood and changed my sisters mindset set into turning this awful experience to the most positive one she possibly could. She explained the moments after birth were so precious and limited, that she would be given time to spend with her baby, family could meet her, and hand prints would be made as well as photos. If it wasn't for this amazing midwife I certainly dont think I could have supported my sister and her partner. She totally changed our outlook on how we were going to live on past this time.
As we requested, another scan was given. At this point I knew, and they knew what the outcome would be, but for piece of mind we needed to go through it.
When we were told we could go in, we had to go past all the pregnant mothers. THAT WAS HARD. Seeing my sister in panic mode just because she was amongst pregnant woman, panicking she would bump into anyone, panicking that people could see her tears, and that they would know shes lost her baby in her lovely big bump.
Just as they were about to go in I said
"Ill wait out here I dont want to intrude"
Knowing full well at this point I was thinking of myself not wanting to see what was about to happen .
But my sister wanted me there so in I went.
I sat on the other side of the room watching these 2 amazing parents to be preparing so calmly and quietly to see there baby on the screen.
Jelly went on my sisters belly, at that moment we all held our breath's and prayed so hard to hear a heart beat.
Instead, all there was silence .........................................................
That for me was THE moment it all sunk in, that little baby girl on the big screen, the outline of a spin and head I could see would never be held warm in my arms.
"Auntie Shell" would never be called for from her mouth .
The next part of the story is theirs... I left them to bring their baby into the world. Baby MIA
I cant quite bring myself to write about the moment my sister, her partner and I all met baby Mia and how we documented it all. Maybe in time. But what I will say is , it was a mixture of sadness , happiness and unbelievably proudness.
Its so hard on the parents, absolute hell, the most excruciating pain you can experience.
But it can also be hard on family members.
I remember at one point just crying into my husband wishing he could take the pain in my heart away, it physically hurt to breath. I desperately wanted to make things better for my sister, I wanted to protect her, pretend to her that I was strong and was supporting her, but secretly inside I was so angry and upset with anything and everything. All I wanted to do was make things right, I wanted my Niece, baby Mia, breathing.
For weeks after I disconnected myself from my husband and little girl. It affected my family life at home, being away from them all the time. My little girl was only 2 years old at the time, telling her baby Mia was in the sky was so difficult, she couldn't understand what that meant or why mummy had been leaving her so much.
I will never forget the midwife pulling me aside and asking if I was doing ok, telling me its ok if I'm not, I didn't think I felt like I had the right to be feeling the way I was as I thought it was selfish, but looking back I was grieving also.
This experience has inspired me to raise awareness and funds for all the charities that help families, such as ourselves get through these awful times. As well as offering support , they research into why this happens and try to save babies lives.
So please help me raise awareness and funds by donating at
MAM UK Tommy's Sands, the stillbirth & neonatal death charity
#tommyscharity #sandscharity #kickscount #babylossawaerness #babylossawearnessweek #savebabieslives #babywearingdance #danc


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1 Introduction Set-associative caches offer lower miss rates than directmapped caches, but usually have a longer access time. In a set-associative cache, cache blocks are divided into sets and a single fetch address may find its data in any block of its set. When referencing a cache set, the blocks are examined in parallel. When all blocks and, in specific, their tags have been read from the set, a tag comparator selects the block containing the desired data, and passes the data from that block to the processor. The comparator introduces an extra delay between the availability of the cache data and the time it can be used by the processor, because the cache can not send the data to the processor, even speculatively, until the comparison is finished. This, among other factors, increases the cache access or cycle time. By contrast, in a direct-mapped cache, a fetch address can only access a single block, and the data from that block can be speculatively dispatched while the tags are compared, thus reducing the critical path length. The CACTI cache timing simulator [14] can be used to approximate the increased access time for a two-way set-associative cache. For caches with 32 byte cache lines, the same configuration used in our simulation study, the access time for a two-way associative cache is 51%, 46% and 40% times longer than the access time for
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2 Prior Work Sequential or serial implementations of two-way setassociative caches can be categorized along two dimensions. First, they can be categorized by whether the cache is probed in a statically fixed order, or if it is probed in a dynamically determined order. Second, they can be categorized by the block allocation (and re-allocation) policy. The addition of a block re-allocation policy is especially important in those schemes with a fixed probe order.
We will use the diagrams in Figure 1 to clarify issues in the various serial set-associative designs. We assume the reader is familiar with the design of direct-mapped caches and the conventional implementation of two-way set-associative caches that compare multiple tags at once. We assume each cache entry has an L-bit set index and a tag. We use a word-addressed cache and word-sized block to describe the various cache organizations to simplify their description. A direct-mapped cache contains 2L cache blocks; when a block address is to be fetched or loaded into the cache, the lower L bits are used to index into the cache. When fetching an item from the cache, the remaining address bits are compared to the tag; if these match, the item is successfully found in the cache, otherwise a cache miss occurs. In a two-way set-associative cache, only L ; 1 bits are used as a set index. Each cache set contains two blocks. In a conventional design, the tags in both blocks are compared concurrently when fetching an address. If either tag matches, the reference has been found. New entries may be loaded into either block, as determined by the block allocation policy. Usually a leastrecently-used mechanism is employed. A set-associative cache typically has a lower miss rate than a direct-mapped cache, but is more difficult to implement and increases the cache access time [5].
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Agarwal et al [1] proposed the Hash-Rehash cache (HRCache) to reduce the miss rate of direct-mapped caches. Although the Hash-Rehash cache can be used to implement arbitrary associativity, we only consider a two-way set-associative cache, since that is the most cost-effective configuration. The HR-cache organization uses a fixed probe order and a non-LRU cache allocation/re-allocation scheme to maximize the number of first probes that hit. Figure 1(a) illustrates the structure of the HR-cache. The cache blocks are divided into two banks. Each bank contains one of the two blocks that comprise a set, and L ; 1 bits are used to index a block in a set. While a conventional set-associative cache matches the tags in parallel, the HRcache matches the tags sequentially. The cache is organized as a conventional direct-mapped cache; thus, the cycle time for accessing an individual block would be faster than that of a conventional set-associative cache. Cache blocks are indexed using two distinct hashing functions, and the cache is probed in a fixed order using those hash functions. We call the cache block addressed by the first hash function the "first block" and the remaining block the "second block." If the data is not found in the first block, the second block is examined. If the data is found in the second block, the contents of the first and second blocks are exchanged. The intuition is that by re-allocating the data, successive references will locate the data quicker, because it will be found with the first probe. If the data is not found by the second probe, a miss occurs. The first block is moved to the second block, since the first block was more likely to have been more recently referenced than the second block, and the missing block is placed in the first block. As shown in later examples, this mechanism does not implement a true LRU replacement policy. This process is easier to understand by example. We will use the same reference stream to illustrate the operation of
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The addresses are specified in binary, and the tag (the high three bits) is separated from the set index (the low two bits) by an underscore ( ). Using the cache configuration in Figure 1(a), all of these references map to the same set. Since the HR-cache uses a conventional direct-mapped organization, the concept of blocks in a set are represented by the use of an additional cache index bit to distinguish the two blocks of the set. Before each example, we assume the initial cache configuration is such that address 000 10 (at index two) and 001 10 (at index six) are in the two blocks of the set, and that 001 10 was more recently referenced than 000 10. In the HR-Cache the first hashing function uses a directmapped lookup (formed using the lower-order bits of the tag, concatenated with the set index), and the second hashing function probes the other block in the set. Thus, fetching the address 010 10 would first probe index two, then index six, while fetching 001 10 would first probe index six and then index two. Figure 1(a) illustrates how the two references are processed in the HR-Cache. The fetch of 010 10 would examine index two first, and index six second. Since a miss occurs, the contents of index two (000 10) are moved to index six, and 010 10 is loaded into index two. Notice that block 001 10 is replaced, even though it was more recently referenced than 000 10. A true LRU replacement strategy would have replaced 000 10. The next reference is to 001 10, which was just replaced. Index six is examined first, and index two is examined second. Again, a miss occurs. The contents of index six are moved to index two, and 001 10 is loaded into index six. Cache simulations by Agarwal [2], and our own simulations, show that the Hash-Rehash cache has a higher miss rate than a two-way set-associative cache with LRU replacement. There are two obstacles that limit the performance or practicality of the HR-Cache: the higher miss rate and the need to exchange entire cache lines. In the HR-Cache, the entire first and second blocks must be exchanged if a reference is found in the second block. This may be a problem for caches with large lines. Some implementations use a 128-byte cache line, although the processor only retrieves four or eight bytes on each fetch. Exchanging such large cache lines either requires a several cycle exchange operation, or a design that allows two cache lines to be rapidly exchanged via a wide cache access. The extra metal and sense amplifiers required for this wide access would likely add significantly to both the size and power requirements of the cache. Furthermore, a special exchange operation could interfere with the pipelining of normal cache accesses, especially in multi-ported designs, and would introduce more bookkeeping for deferred write and fill operations. The Column-Associative Cache (CA-Cache) of Agarwal and Pudar [2] improved the miss rate and average access time of the HR-Cache, but still requires that entire cache blocks be exchanged. Like the HR-Cache, the CA-Cache, shown diagrammatically in Figure 1(b), divides the cache into two banks. Cache blocks are found using two hashing
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functions. In the CA-Cache, a rehash bit is associated with each cache block, indicating that the data stored in that cache block would be found using the second hash function. The rehash bit is the exclusive-or of the lowestorder bit in the tag and the bank number. Consider the process of fetching the addresses 010 10 and 001 10. As before, 000 10 and 001 10 are already at indices two and six respectively. When the address 010 10 is fetched, index two would be examined first, followed by index six. A miss occurs, the data from index two is moved to index six, and 010 10 is loaded into index two. The address 000 10 at index six would now be found using the second hashing function, and the corresponding rehash bit is set. Note that the more recently referenced block 001 10 was discarded. Now, address 001 10 is referenced. Index six is examined first; that block does not contain 001 10, but the rehash bit has been set, indicating that line two can not contain 001 10. Index two is not examined, and the miss is issued one cycle earlier than in the case of the HR-Cache. Note that 000 10 "flips" between the two banks, even though it is the least recently used cache line. In the HR-Cache, the replacement policy always replaces the contents of the second block that is examined. Our example shows the second block block may have been more recently referenced than the first block. Now consider the CA-Cache: if a miss occurs and the rehash bit for the first block is set, then there is no need to look in the other block for the data. The data will not be found in the other block since the rehash bit indicates that both the first block and the other block contain data that are searched for in the other block during the first cache lookup. Besides decreasing the number of cache lookups needed when there is a cache miss, the rehash bit also helps the replacement policy for the CA-Cache. If the rehash bit is set for the first block examined then the other block was more recently used. If the rehash bit is set, the CA-Cache replacement policy replaces the value in the first block. If the rehash bit is not set, the contents of the first block are transferred to the second block, and the fetched data is stored in the first block. Our detailed example illustrates a situation where the CA-Cache does not implement a true LRU replacement algorithm; however, the CA-Cache does have a miss rate close to that of true LRU replacement.
Dynamically Ordered Cache Probes
In contrast with the HR-Cache and CA-cache schemes, other researchers have developed schemes that use a dynamic probe ordering and do not rely on special cache allocation or re-allocation policies. Chang et al [4] proposed a novel organization for a multi-chip 32-way setassociative cache. Their study, and an earlier study by So and Rechtschaffen [12], found that most requests reference the most recently used blocks. Each set of cache blocks had associated "most recently used" (MRU) information. When accessing a cache set, the cache provided the block selected by the MRU information. Concurrently, the tags from the different chips were gathered and compared; if the wrong cache item was used, it was detected and the proper item was provided on the next cycle. This organization allowed most references (85%-95%) to complete in a single cycle, and reduced the cycle time of their multi-chip implementation by 30-35%.
Kessler et al [8] proposed a similar organization. Rather than swap the cache locations like the HR-Cache and CACache, each pair of cache blocks uses an "MRU bit" to indicate the most recently used block. When searching for data, the block indicated by the MRU bit is probed first. If the data is not found, the second block is probed; if the data is found, the MRU bit is inverted, indicating the second block is more recently used than the first block. If the data is not found, the least recently used block, indicated by the MRU bit, is replaced. The MRU bit is used to implement an LRU replacement policy, so the MRU-Cache has the same miss rate as a two-way set-associative cache. The implementation of MRU two-way associative caches is shown in Figure 1(c). In that diagram, we show the MRU bits as check-marks to the side of each cache block. In practice, pairs of cache lines, such as lines two and six, share a single MRU bit. When 010 10 is referenced, block six, the most recently referenced block, is examined first. Since the data is not found, block two is examined. Again, the tag is not found and the missing data is fetched from memory and placed in block two. The MRU bit is set to indicate that block two is now more recent than block six. On the next reference, block two is examined first, followed by block six. The MRU bit is updated to indicate that block six was more recently used. The design in [8] focused on large, secondary caches, and the lower cycle time seen by [4] did not apply. In the design by Kessler et al, the MRU bit must be fetched prior to accessing the cache contents to determine what cache line should be examined first since the effective address is used index the MRU table. This lengthens the cache access cycle, even if pipelined. Kessler et al felt this cache organization was appropriate for large secondary caches, because searches would be infrequent and the additional overhead for fetching the MRU bit could be speculatively overlapped with the first level access.
3 The Predictive Sequential Associative Cache Both the HR-Cache and the CA-Cache require that entire cache lines be exchanged and have a worse miss rate than a cache with an LRU replacement strategy. In most first-level cache designs, the MRU-Cache requires a slightly longer cycle time to access the MRU prediction information. Furthermore, both the HR-Cache and MRU-Cache implementations suffer from excessive searching in certain situations. For example, assume the address references used in the previous examples have completed, and the processor continues requesting the alternating addresses 010 10; 001 10; : : : ; 010 10; 001 10. In the HR-Cache, address 000 10 will continue to be moved between indices two and six, and each reference will be a miss; in the CACache, these references do not result in further misses. In the MRU-Cache, each reference examines both indices two and six in the cache, because the pairs of blocks in the MRU-Cache share an MRU bit. The MRU information "flip-flops" on each reference, insuring that the next access requires two cycles. These problems are addressed by our proposed cache design, the Predictive Sequential Associative Cache (PSACache), shown in Figure 2. We separate the mechanism used to select probe order from the mechanism used to
guide replacement. Each pair of cache blocks uses an MRU entry to implement LRU replacement. The PSA-Cache has the same miss rate as the MRU-cache and all other LRUreplacement caches. We use another table, the steering bit table (SBT), shown on the left side of Figure 2(a) to guide data access. When fetching a cache line entry, the effective address is used to index into the actual cache. Likewise, a prediction index is used to select a particular steering bit. As Kessler et al [8] indicated, the steering bits need to be accessed prior to the cache access. If we use the effective address to select a steering bit, this may lengthen the cache access time – arguably, if the effective address were available earlier, cache accesses would be initiated at an earlier pipeline stage. However, we do not need to use the effective fetch address to select a steering bit. We examined a number of sources for prediction indices, and present several very accurate sources that can be provided by earlier pipeline stages, insuring the steering bit is available when the cache is accessed. Separating the replacement mechanism from the prediction mechanism offers immediate benefits, even for the MRU-Cache design proposed by Kessler et al. Consider an 8KByte cache split into two banks with 128 pairs of 32 byte lines. The MRU-Cache would use a 128-bit table to indicate the most recently used block in each pair. The PSA-Cache also uses a 128-bit table to implement an LRU replacement policy; however, a much larger table can be used to determine the block that should be probed first when searching for an address. Each entry "steers" references to the appropriate cache block. If a 256-entry steering bit table (SBT) was used, the "flip-flop" example would encounter no penalty in the PSA-cache if different steering bit entries are used. In certain configurations, it is also useful to use a rehash bit in the PSA-Cache. As in the CA-Cache, we use this bit to avoid examining another line when that line can not possibly contain the requested address, but we do not use the bit to guide the replacement policy, since the MRU bit provides more accurate information. Figure 2 shows the operation of the PSA-Cache, indicating both the MRU and rehash bits for each block. The rehash bit for 000 10 is clear because the data stored in the matching block in the other bank is in its "proper" location ( i.e., the location we would examine in a direct-mapped cache). In other words, the third bit of 001 10 stored in line 6 is a "1"; and don't need to examine line 6 when searching for tags where the third bit is a zero. Figure 2(a) shows the reference to address 010 10. Prior to the access, a prediction source was mapped to the third entry in the steering bit table. That entry indicates the first block of the set, i.e., index two, should be probed first. Index two is examined first, and the rehash bit for line six is read concurrently. Index two does not contain 010 10. The rehash bit indicates the contents of block six is not a rehashed entry, and there is no point in examining index six. The referenced address is not in the cache, and is fetched from memory. The MRU bit indicates that the block at index six was more recently used than that at index two, so the contents of index two are replaced with 010 10. As the block is replaced, the steering bit used to locate 010 10 is trained, indicating that bank zero of the set should be probed first on the next reference to 010 10. The prediction source selects the seventh steering bit when 001 10 is referenced. The
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In addition we can use the same information from prior instructions. We examined the following prediction sources: MEM
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Figure 3: Pipeline Stages Showing When Prediction Sources Are Available requested address is found at index six, and the MRU bit is changed to indicate that index six is more recently used than index two. If the processor continues requesting the alternating addresses 010 10; 001 10; : : : ; 010 10; 001 10, each reference will be found in the first probe. In summary, we use three data structures to implement three cache mechanisms. The Steering Bit Table determines which block in a set should be probed first, increasing the number of references found during the first probe. The rehash bits reduce the number of probes, allowing misses to be started earlier or simply reducing the time the cache is busy, which is important for architectures that issue multiple loads per cycle. The MRU bits provide a true LRU replacement policy, improving the overall miss rate.
Prediction Sources
To illustrate some of the specific prediction sources available, Figure 3 shows a simple pipeline and the information available at each stage. We assume a load-store architecture with register-relative addressing – all memory references are of the form M [Rb + Offset]. At instruction fetch (4 cycles before the memory access), we know the instruction address. Following decode (3 cycles before the memory access), we know the register number (b) and the address offset (Offset). After the register file has been read (1 cycle prior to the memory access), we know the contents of Rb, and after the execution stage (right at memory access time), we know the effective address, Rb + Offset.
1. Effective Address. The effective address was the most accurate prediction source; however, there may not be enough time in some designs to compute the effective address and index the steering bits before the cache access completes. When using the effective address, the PSA-Cache is a simple extension to the MRU-Cache with improved performance from a larger steering bit table. 2. Register Contents and Offset. Computing the effective address involves a full add. Functions without carry propagation take less time in some designs, thus making the results available in time to index the steering bit table before the cache access completes. We used the exclusive-or of the contents and offset to form a prediction address. 3. Register Number and Offset. We can combine the register number and the offset several cycles before the cache access. In general, this provides good performance with small SBTs, but the performance improvements dropped off for larger tables. There were three reasons. We were using the register number and not the register contents. Register assignments, particularly at procedure calls, were not reflected in the prediction information. Also, our target architecture has 32 integer registers, and most values for Offset were less than 96; some combinations of the register number and offset did not spread references enough to make use of the entire SBT. Lastly, some registers were used more than others; in most programs, 40% of all references were relative to the stack pointer. We included the stack depth to reduce interference between register usage in different procedures. We further improved this by including the address of the current procedure. Some of this information is already retained by many machines to implement a returnaddress stack [7], a branch prediction mechanism used to predict procedure return addresses. We also tried separate steering bit tables for certain registers.
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Figure 4: Combining Prediction Sources for Steering Bit Table Index 4. Instruction and Previous References. We also used the address of the instruction issuing the reference and variants of the previous cache reference. These prediction sources were less effective than the others, and are not discussed further. We examine four configurations of the PSA-Cache in more detail: the "Eff", "XOR-5-5", "RegNum" and "Proc" caches. We simulated an 8KByte cache with 32 byte lines. Each cache reference is of the form M [Rb + offset], and the cache contains 256 32-byte lines. The lines are divided into 128 sets. All the cache models use (Rb + offset) >> 5, or Rb + offset shifted right five bits, to index into the MRU table. The SBT entry determines the first bank to be examined. Each cache uses a 1024-entry SBT table. The "Eff" configuration uses (Rb + offset) 5 to index both the cache and the SBT table. This configuration illustrates the benefits of changing the MRU-Cache to use a larger steering bit table. Figure 4 illustrates how the indices for XOR-5-5 and RegNum are formed. The "XOR-5-5" configuration uses (Rb offset) 5), where is a bit-wise exclusive or, to index the SBT. In some implementations, there may be enough time to compute the exclusive-or and index the small SBT table before the effective address is computed, while the arithmetic sum (Rb + offset) 5 would take longer to complete. This is similar in flavour to the prediction method of Austin et al [3]. The "RegNum" model forms the prediction address by concatenating the register number and the lower five bits of the offset ( (b 5)j((offset 5)&0x1F) ). The "Proc" configuration extends "RegNum" using an exclusive or of the destination address from the previous procedure call. Steering-bits resemble a single-bit branch prediction table; each entry contains a single bit and has no associated tag. Thus, for an 8KByte cache with 32 byte lines, a 1024-entry Steering Bit Table (SBT) represents 1% overhead. The actual overhead depends on the mechanism and design of the SBT.
4 Experimental Design and Performance Metrics We compared the accuracy of the different prediction sources and the performance of the different cache organizations using trace-driven simulation. We collected information from 26 C and Fortran programs. We instrumented the programs from the SPEC92 benchmark suite and other programs, including many from the Perfect Club. We used ATOM [13] to instrument the programs. Due to the structure of ATOM, we did not need to record traces and traced the full execution of each program. The programs were compiled on a DEC 3000-400 using the Alpha AXP-21064
Program APS CSS LGS LWS NAS OCS TFS TIS WSS alvinn dodoc ear fpppp hydro2d mdljsp2 nasa7 ora spice su2cor wave5 compress eqntott espresso gcc li sc
# of Instructions % of Loads 1,490,454,770 24.70 379,319,722 31.76 955,807,677 19.95 14,183,394,882 22.96 3,603,798,937 22.68 5,187,329,629 21.67 1,694,450,064 26.55 1,722,430,820 26.91 5,422,412,141 22.66 5,240,969,586 26.95 1,149,864,756 29.32 17,005,801,014 22.09 4,333,190,877 35.31 5,682,546,752 24.22 3,343,833,266 22.53 6,128,388,651 28.86 6,036,097,925 22.26 16,148,172,565 32.61 4,776,762,363 22.39 3,554,909,341 21.33 92,629,658 26.38 1,810,540,418 12.77 513,008,174 21.57 143,737,915 23.89 1,355,059,387 28.09 1,450,134,411 13.45
% of Stores 11.80 9.07 10.51 9.47 9.07 21.81 11.38 13.11 8.89 9.30 7.02 12.67 12.64 8.30 6.52 11.12 9.75 4.08 10.21 13.39 9.47 1.29 5.08 11.74 14.65 5.75
Table 1: Measured attributes of traced programs showing the number of instructions executed during execution and the percentage of loads and stores. processor and either the DEC C or FORTRAN compilers. Most programs were compiled using the standard OSF/1 V1.2 operating system. All programs were compiled with standard optimization (-O). In this paper, we are primarily concerned with first-level data cache references, because data references are difficult to predict, and first level caches must be both fast and have low miss rates. Furthermore, instruction cache misses can be reduced using a number of software techniques [9, 10] and instruction references are usually very predictable. Thus, even the "Eff" technique described below can be used with instruction caches. We examined an 8 KByte cache with 32-byte cache lines. We assume the cache uses a write-around or no-store-allocate write policy, since earlier work by Jouppi [6] found this to be more effective than a fetch-on-write or store-allocate policy. The study by Jouppi found an overall lower miss rate using writearound. Our simulations show a slightly higher miss rate, particularly for writes.
5 Trace-Driven Performance Comparison The cache miss rate is normally used to compare the performance of different cache organizations. We have seen that the access time for direct-mapped caches and traditional set-associative caches differ by as much as 50%, and this increased access time is not reflected in the miss rate. The traditional two-way set-associative cache, the
Table 2: Definition of Terms Used in Timing Equations
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H TM M H TR M H Hf +(1+TP )Hs +(1+TM )Mf +(1+TNS +TM )Ms Hf + (1 + TP + TS )Hs + (1 + TR )Mf + (1 + TP + TS + TR )Ms 0 Hf + (1 + TP + TS )Hs + Mf + (1 + TP )Ms Hf +(1+TP )Hs +(1+TM )Mf +(1+TNS +TM )Ms Hf + (1 + TP )Hs + (1 + TR )Mf + (1 + TP + TR )Ms 0 Hf + (1 + TP )Hs + Mf + (1 + TP )Ms
Table 3: Timing Equations Used To Compare Performance. In the HR-Cache and MRU-Cache, all misses take two cycles, meaning that Mf = 0 and Ms = M . The raw cache access time is a single cycle. We assume TP = 1 and TS = 4TR ; 2. 2.4 Latency (Optimistic) Latency (Conservative) Occupancy
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Table 2 defines certain parameters used in our timing model, and Table 3 shows how we calculate access latency and occupancy. We record different hit rates for loads and stores because loads and stores are treated differently, although that distinction is not made explicit in the timing equations to simplify the notation. The sequential associative caches further divide the hit rate H into hits that are detected on the first cache probe, Hf , and those detected on the second probe Hs . The CA-Cache and PSA-Cache use the rehash bit to avoid a second cache probe for some cache misses. In the sequential caches, the miss rate M is divided into M f , denoting the misses detected on the first cache probe, and Ms denoting the misses detected on the second cache probe. The HR-Cache and MRU-Cache always probe the cache twice on misses, and Mf is always zero for these caches.
We define the cache access latency to be the average time the processor must wait for a memory reference to be resolved. Similarly, the average cache occupancy is the time the cache is busy for each reference. In general, a smaller access latency and smaller occupancy is preferred. If the latency is high, the processor must stall, waiting for data. If the occupancy is high, there is a greater chance outstanding references will conflict with newly issued references. As we show later, most of the cache designs have the same access latency, and are differentiated by their cache occupancy. It is difficult to precisely quantify the performance resulting from a particular access latency and occupancy, because system performance depends on instruction scheduling, the number of out-standing references, the depth of write-buffers and a number of other features determined by a particular system. However, latency and occupancy, like miss rates, can be used to narrow the design space prior to system-level simulation.
Average Cycles Per Reference
Time to probe the cache following the first probe, in cycles. In some designs, this may be larger than one cycle, but we assume it is one cycle. Penalty for cache misses, in cycles. This includes the time to initiate the cache miss and receive the data. Time to refill a cache line, in cycles. This is the time the cache is busy when a cache line is refilled. We assume a 32-byte cache line can be refilled in two cycles. Extra time needed if misses can not be squashed. The "Conservative" timing model assumes = , while the "Op= 0. timistic" timing model assumes Time needed to swap cache lines in the HR-Cache & CACache.
We decided to compare the techniques using a timing model that separates the latency encountered by the pipeline and the time the cache is busy. Agarwal [2] used a simple timing model to demonstrate the performance of the CACache. His model provides an average access time and can be used to compare all cache organizations that have the same cycle time. However, Agarwal's timing model did not distinguish between loads and stores. Conceptually, a processor pipeline must wait until a load is resolved, but need not wait for a store to finish – in practice, several loads and stores may be waiting to be resolved. Even if the processor is able to continue to issue loads after a miss, the pending miss may interfere with the loads that hit in the cache.
MRU-Cache, and the PSA-Cache all use an LRU replacement algorithm, and have identical miss rates. The PSACache and MRU-Cache may probe the cache several times to achieve that same miss rate, and a "probe rate" may be a more appropriate metric. When comparing the MRUCache and PSA-Cache to the HR-Cache and CA-Cache, we must also include the differences in miss rates. Finally, when comparing any of these methods to a two-way associative cache, we should include the difference in cycle time between an associative cache and the direct mapped caches used to implement the sequential associative caches.
Figure 5: Latency and Occupancy for Conservative and Optimistic Configurations. The occupancy is the same for both the Conservative and Optimistic configurations. Parameters are TM = 10; TR = 2; TS = 4TR ; 2; TP = 1. Cache size is 8KBytes, with 32 byte lines. The values shown are the arithmetic means averaged over all programs.
The latency for a cache miss, or miss penalty, is TM cycles. This includes the time to request the data from lower levels of the memory hierarchy, move it on-chip and load it into the cache. In some cases, a miss can be initiated speculatively and "squashed" in a later cycle. This reduces the latency for a miss, because the miss can be initiated a cycle earlier. Our "Conservative" cache timing model does not initiate misses speculatively, while our "Optimistic" timing model assumes a cache miss can be speculatively initiated and squashed one cycle later. We use the term TNS ("nonsquashing") to reflect the additional time spent servicing misses if the miss can not be speculatively initiated. While the latency determines how long the processor must wait for references to be resolved, the occupancy determines how long the cache is busy. Although the miss penalty is TM cycles, the cache is only busy when the cache lines are being reloaded, or TR cycles. The HR-Cache and CA-Cache exchange cache lines to improve the average access latency and we assume it takes TS cycles to swap two cache lines. Agarwal's timing model [2] combines the notion of latency and occupancy, and argued that TS should be a single cycle. We feel a larger value is more reasonable, particularly for large cache lines, such as 32 or 128 bytes. There would be increased wiring density needed to exchange two complete cache lines in a single cycle, possibly increasing the cycle time. If we can reload half a cache line in a single cycle (i.e., TR = 2), it could be argued that we could exchange a cache line in 4TR ; 2 cycles, because two half-lines have already been read by the time we determine the lines must be swapped. Table 3 shows the timing model. Stores do not stall the processor, and have a latency of zero. Consider the load latency for the CA-Cache. If the first probe results in a hit, a cycle was spent. If the second probe is a hit, the pipeline was stalled two cycles. At this point, the cache lines must be swapped, but the pipeline does not wait for this to finish. However, the cache lines must be swapped before the next cache reference begins. If a reference misses in the first bank, and the rehash bit indicates that it can not hit in the second bank, the pipeline stalls for 1 + TM cycles. If the second bank must be examined, the processor stalls for 1 + TM cycles, and may stall for an additional TNS cycles if the miss can not be started early. In the CA-Cache, the cache is occupied while the cache is probed, the cache lines are swapped or cache lines are refilled.
Performance Comparison
The graph in Figure 5 summarizes the latency and occupancy, while Tables 4(a), 4(b) and 5 provide more detailed information. In each configuration, the cache miss penalty is ten cycles (TM = 10), it takes two issues to refill a line (TR = 2) and six cycles to swap cache lines (TS = 4TR ; 2). Each cache is 8 KBytes with 32 byte lines. The latency is given for both the conservative timing model, where cache misses can not be speculatively initiated, and the optimistic model, where they can. The occupancy does not depend on the ability to speculatively initiate cache misses, and is the same for both timing models. Latency and occupancy are measured in average cycles per reference. Although Tables 4(b) and 4(a) show the latency and occupancy can be less than one, the averages shown in Figure 5 are not, and the vertical axis is bounded
by one. In general, the latency for the associative caches are 5 ; 10% smaller than that of the direct mapped cache; exact values can be found in the tables. It is important to understand that this paper is not comparing the effectiveness of direct vs. associative caches; we assume that associative caches are desired, and an efficient implementation technique is needed. In our performance comparison, we examined caches with a small miss penalty, TM = 10, because we feel the PSA-Cache is appropriate for first level caches. As the miss penalty increases, all two-way associative caches further reduce the latency, due to the reduced miss rate. The access time for a two-way associative cache depends on the cache size and a number of other factors. As mentioned, the access time for a two-way associative cache is 1.51, 1.46 and 1.40 times longer than the access time for a direct mapped cache for 8KB, 16KB and 32KB caches, respectively. It is incorrect to simply scale the cycles per memory reference show in Tables 4(b), 4(a) and 5 by these values, since the data cache access time typically limits the system cycle time and has a much broader impact on system performance. For example, assume we design a system using an 8KByte cache with a 3 nanosecond clock. Table 4(b) would imply that a two-way set associative cache would lower the average cycles per memory reference by 10-15%, by reducing the miss rate. However, such a cache would also be 1.51 times slower, with a 4.53ns cycle time. By comparison, the sequential cache configurations shown in Table 4(b) maintain the same 3ns cycle time, and reduce the average cycles per reference. The latencies for most of the two-way associative caches are almost identical; this is not surprising, since the equations for latency in Table 3 are identical for the HR, CA, MRU and PSA caches. Any difference in the latency arises from different hit rates, and the fraction of references resolved on the first or second cycle. Only the HR-Cache has a notably higher miss rate. Table 4(b) demonstrates several points also seen in the remaining tables. First, for some programs (swm256 and tomcatv), two-way setassociativity increases the miss rate. For the remaining programs, the ideal two-way set associative cache has the best performance, followed by the PSA-Cache using the "Eff" prediction address; however, this configuration simply extends the MRU-Cache to use a larger table of prediction bits, and it may not be possible to use the effective address to index a table of steering bits and access the data in a single cycle. However, the "Eff" column demonstrates how to improve the MRU-Cache design of Kessler et al for the domains considered in [8]. The next most effective configuration is "XOR-5-5," followed by the CA-Cache. The "XOR-5-5" configuration requires an exclusive-or of the contents of the register and offset before the SBT is accessed; this may not be possible in some designs. However, the "Proc" design provides almost equal performance with considerably more flexible timing constraints. The prediction sources for the "Proc" configuration are available immediately after the instruction is decoded. In Table 5, the direct and traditional two-way cache have the lowest occupancy; this is understandable, because all cache operations either take one cycle (hit) or 1 + TR cycles (miss). In the CA-Cache and PSA-Cache, rehash bits are used to avoid examining the second half of the
Rehash CAC MRU Perfect Club Programs 1.37 1.17 1.20 1.45 1.24 1.25 0.88 0.84 0.83 1.15 0.96 0.96 1.46 1.28 1.27 1.43 1.37 1.37 1.21 1.03 1.07 1.35 1.29 1.28 1.83 1.36 1.42 1.59 1.43 1.45
Rehash CAC MRU Perfect Club Programs 1.13 1.31 1.13 1.17 1.17 1.39 1.21 1.23 0.81 0.86 0.83 0.82 0.91 1.11 0.94 0.95 1.20 1.39 1.24 1.24 1.30 1.35 1.32 1.31 1.04 1.17 1.02 1.06 1.25 1.29 1.26 1.26 1.30 1.73 1.32 1.40 1.38 1.51 1.39 1.42
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1.15 1.31 1.17 1.19 0.18 0.23 0.18 0.19 SPEC Floating Point Programs 1.22 1.33 1.22 1.24 1.37 1.71 1.41 1.45 0.79 1.07 0.80 0.83 0.90 1.16 0.94 0.96 1.96 2.11 2.00 1.99 1.01 1.27 1.03 1.06 3.69 3.80 3.72 3.78 0.70 0.79 0.72 0.72 3.28 3.60 3.33 3.38 4.14 4.34 4.13 4.18 3.03 5.29 2.92 3.32 3.83 5.92 3.95 4.12 1.15 1.57 1.15 1.22
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1.23 1.45 0.81 1.07 2.02 1.06 3.75 0.75 3.43 4.22 3.14 3.94 1.26
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2.16 1.32
2.16 1.33
1.86 1.33 1.25 1.08 0.99 1.99
1.86 1.34 1.25 1.13 1.06 2.00
1.91 1.36 1.31 1.19 1.13 2.06
1.89 1.35 1.30 1.16 1.09 2.03
1.46 1.42 0.41 0.41
1.44 0.39
1.49 0.39
1.47 0.39
1.68 1.63 1.02 0.98
1.67 0.98
1.70 0.99
1.69 0.99
1.16 1.19 0.82 0.92 1.23 1.33 1.05 1.27 1.32 1.41
1.20 1.25 0.86 0.98 1.25 1.35 1.11 1.31 1.38 1.49
1.23 1.29 0.89 0.99 1.26 1.37 1.12 1.31 1.51 1.53
1.22 1.26 0.87 0.99 1.25 1.37 1.12 1.32 1.54 1.55
1.24 1.44 0.88 1.11 1.43 1.36 1.01 1.30 1.54 1.48
1.17 0.19
1.22 0.19
1.25 0.20
1.25 0.22
Mean StdDev
1.28 0.22
1.23 1.40 0.79 0.91 2.00 1.02 3.81 0.70 3.39 4.24 3.10 3.89 1.17
1.23 1.44 0.80 1.04 2.09 1.04 3.88 0.74 3.46 4.30 3.15 3.99 1.19
1.24 1.48 0.81 1.07 2.07 1.07 3.89 0.75 3.54 4.37 3.22 4.06 1.28
1.24 1.45 0.81 1.03 2.11 1.07 3.90 0.72 3.54 4.35 3.22 4.11 1.27
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1.30 1.70 0.88 1.23 2.12 1.14 3.86 0.96 3.58 4.18 2.52 3.58 1.30
2.13 1.35
2.18 1.36
2.22 1.38
2.22 1.39
Mean StdDev
2.18 1.22
1.91 1.35 1.27 1.10 1.01 2.04
1.91 1.36 1.27 1.15 1.07 2.05
1.96 1.38 1.33 1.21 1.15 2.11
1.94 1.37 1.32 1.18 1.11 2.09
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2.22 1.49 1.36 1.32 1.34 2.16
2.08 2.61 2.10 2.17 1.31 1.75 1.31 1.36 SPEC Integer Programs 1.86 1.98 1.92 1.90 1.33 1.48 1.35 1.36 1.25 1.33 1.26 1.28 1.08 1.31 1.12 1.13 0.99 1.23 1.03 1.05 1.99 2.23 2.02 2.03
1.49 1.44 0.43 0.43
1.47 0.41
1.53 0.41
1.50 0.41
Mean StdDev
1.65 0.43
1.41 0.41
1.73 1.66 1.06 1.01
1.70 1.02
1.74 1.03
1.73 1.04
Mean StdDev
1.76 0.92
1.62 0.98
1.24 1.44 0.88 1.11 1.43 1.36 1.01 1.30 1.54 1.48
1.13 1.17 0.81 0.91 1.20 1.30 1.04 1.25 1.30 1.38
Mean StdDev
1.28 0.22
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1.30 1.70 0.88 1.23 2.12 1.14 3.86 0.96 3.58 4.18 2.52 3.58 1.30
1.15 1.37 1.19 1.21 0.18 0.26 0.19 0.20 SPEC Floating Point Programs 1.22 1.38 1.24 1.25 1.37 1.80 1.44 1.47 0.79 1.11 0.81 0.83 0.90 1.20 0.95 0.97 1.96 2.24 2.07 2.04 1.01 1.32 1.05 1.08 3.69 4.11 3.91 3.90 0.70 0.80 0.72 0.72 3.28 3.86 3.48 3.49 4.14 4.71 4.31 4.36 3.03 5.75 3.03 3.40 3.83 6.43 4.12 4.25 1.15 1.67 1.18 1.24
Mean StdDev
2.18 1.22
2.08 1.31
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2.22 1.49 1.36 1.32 1.34 2.16
2.80 2.18 2.23 1.93 1.38 1.42 SPEC Integer Programs 1.86 2.10 2.00 1.96 1.33 1.53 1.38 1.38 1.25 1.38 1.29 1.30 1.08 1.37 1.15 1.15 0.99 1.28 1.05 1.06 1.99 2.38 2.10 2.09
Mean StdDev
1.65 0.43
1.41 0.41
Mean StdDev
1.76 0.92
1.62 0.98
1.67 1.49 0.45 0.44 Overall Statistics 2.07 1.70 1.45 1.04
(a) Cache Access Latency for Optimistic Timing Model with TM = 10 Cycles, TR = 2 Cycles, TS = 4TR ; 2 Cycles.
1.59 1.45 0.41 0.42 Overall Statistics 1.95 1.64 1.32 0.98
(b) Cache Access Latency for Conservative Timing Model with TM = 10 Cycles, TR = 2 Cycles, TS = 4TR ; 2 Cycles.
Table 4: Conservative and Optimistic Latency For Different Programs cache in some situations. Agarwal [2] used the rehash bit to reduce the latency by initiating misses one cycle earlier. In our "Optimistic" timing model, the rehash bit has no effect on latency because misses are always initiated early, but rehash bits influence occupancy in all configurations. There is still a notable difference between the "Optimistic" and "Conservative" timing model, even when the rehash bits are used, indicating that the speculative miss initiation is useful even when the rehash bit can not avoid probing the cache a second time.
We feel that occupancy is an important metric, because it determines how quickly memory references, both loads and stores, can be issued without contention in the cache. Occupancy directly affects cache latency, but is highly dependent on machine and system architectures and instruction scheduling.
6 Conclusions In this paper, we have described the Predictive Sequential Associative Cache as a mechanism to implement twoway associative on-chip caches. We proposed two metrics, latency and occupancy, suitable for comparing associative cache designs. Variants of the PSA-Cache have better performance, in terms of latency and occupancy, than other proposed designs. We strongly feel the PSA-Cache variants are easier to implement than designs that exchange cache lines, particularly for larger cache lines. Our simultation study showed that all the techniques had comparable latency, with variants of the PSA-Cache having the lowest latency. The PSA-Cache also had the lowest occupancy. The "Eff" design has the best performance, but the "XOR-5-5" may be easier to implement and have a shorter access time. There are a number of other design criteria not imme-
Rehash CAC MRU Perfect Club Programs 1.78 1.54 1.18 1.80 1.52 1.17 1.33 1.22 1.09 1.58 1.36 1.11 1.82 1.55 1.19 2.00 1.71 1.31 1.44 1.22 1.11 1.70 1.48 1.20 2.20 1.66 1.25 1.93 1.61 1.24
1.11 1.13 1.05 1.08 1.14 1.17 1.06 1.12 1.17 1.15
1.09 1.08 1.03 1.04 1.10 1.16 1.06 1.11 1.13 1.13
Mean StdDev
1.12 0.05
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1.11 1.18 1.05 1.10 1.28 1.07 1.63 1.05 1.54 1.70 1.36 1.56 1.14
1.09 1.76 1.49 1.19 0.04 0.26 0.17 0.07 SPEC Floating Point Programs 1.09 1.62 1.37 1.13 1.11 2.19 1.75 1.26 1.03 1.52 1.22 1.10 1.03 1.73 1.46 1.15 1.24 2.50 1.97 1.38 1.05 1.56 1.27 1.12 1.59 4.24 3.37 1.86 1.00 1.28 1.18 1.03 1.48 3.80 2.99 1.70 1.69 4.70 3.42 2.05 1.46 5.41 2.55 1.94 1.61 5.92 3.14 2.16 1.11 2.23 1.65 1.30
Mean StdDev
1.29 0.24
1.27 0.26
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1.30 1.12 1.11 1.13 1.14 1.29
2.98 2.10 1.48 1.62 0.87 0.41 SPEC Integer Programs 1.22 2.38 2.05 1.34 1.08 1.63 1.41 1.14 1.09 1.60 1.41 1.16 1.08 1.87 1.55 1.20 1.07 1.83 1.53 1.17 1.26 2.68 2.09 1.44
Mean StdDev
1.18 0.09
1.13 0.08
Mean StdDev
1.21 0.18
1.18 0.19
2.00 1.67 0.44 0.31 Overall Statistics 2.35 1.80 1.23 0.66
1.14 1.11 1.06 1.06 1.14 1.22 1.08 1.18 1.15 1.18
1.19 1.18 1.14 1.17 1.19 1.27 1.17 1.25 1.24 1.30
1.25 1.23 1.18 1.18 1.20 1.31 1.19 1.26 1.39 1.35
1.23 1.20 1.14 1.17 1.17 1.32 1.20 1.27 1.41 1.37
1.13 0.05
1.21 0.05
1.25 0.07
1.25 0.09
1.11 1.17 1.04 1.07 1.31 1.06 1.75 1.00 1.60 1.91 1.56 1.71 1.20
1.11 1.23 1.06 1.23 1.45 1.08 1.84 1.06 1.67 1.98 1.65 1.84 1.24
1.13 1.27 1.08 1.28 1.43 1.11 1.85 1.08 1.76 2.07 1.73 1.91 1.35
1.12 1.23 1.07 1.23 1.46 1.10 1.85 1.02 1.75 2.04 1.73 1.96 1.34
1.35 0.32
1.42 0.34
1.46 0.35
1.45 0.36
1.28 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.10 1.38
1.28 1.13 1.13 1.21 1.20 1.40
1.35 1.15 1.20 1.29 1.31 1.49
1.32 1.13 1.18 1.24 1.26 1.45
1.24 1.19 0.12 0.12
1.22 0.10
1.30 0.12
1.27 0.11
1.33 1.24 0.31 0.24
1.31 0.25
1.36 0.26
1.34 0.27
Table 5: Average Cache Occupancy with TM = 10 Cycles, TR = 2 Cycles, TS = 4TR ; 2 Cycles. The Cache Occupancy is the same for the the Conservative (TNS = 1) and Optimistic (TNS = 0) models.
diately evident from our performance metrics. First, the PSA-Cache may have fewer power requirements than other caches since a single bank is probed. Furthermore, since the PSA-Cache is divided into two banks that can be operated independently, it may be possible to support multiple references without dual-porting the banks. A similar argument can be made for the CA-Cache, but it would require extensive book-keeping to maintain correctness while blocks are exchanged. Lastly, the PSA-Cache mechanism may also be appropriate for larger, secondary caches directly controlled by the processor. The Steering Bit Table can be small, and implemented on the processor, while the MRU Table, cache tags and data can be implemented off-chip. In the future, we hope to apply prediction sources to skewed-associative caches [11].
Acknowledgements Brad Calder was supported by an ARPA Fellowship in High Performance Computing administered by the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland. This work was funded in part by NSF grant No. ASC-9217394, NSF grant No. CCR-9404669, ARPA contract ARMY DABT63-94-C-0029 and a software and hardware grant from Digital Equipment Corporation.
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The Hernando Beach Club, www.hernandobeachclub.com, is a private membership club located in Hernando Beach Florida directly on the Gulf of Mexico. Our beautiful Gulf sunsets are the perfect backdrop for your sunset wedding and reception. The club dining/banquet room can seat 130 easily plus we have a large dance floor, and there is additional seating in our lounge and a full service bar. We also have an outdoor gazebo for a band for outdoor events and a beautiful pergola overlooking the gulf, the perfect setting for a romantic waterfront wedding. We have a full kitchen for your caterer to use and ample parking space plus we are a few minutes drive from nearby hotels. You can rent the entire facility or just our lounge for smaller events. Please do contact our rental manager on our website for all details
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3 Reviews for Hernando Beach Club
Recommended by 91% of couples
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Sunni · Married on 07/13/2013
This place is a hidden gem. Not many people know about it but it is amazing! The venue is right on the Gulf of Mexico. You see nothing but gulf. Many people have outside weddings and that was my plan; however, the rain hit and I had my ceremony inside. Our ceremony was still amazing inside because of the size and layout of the venue. The views of the sunset in the back of this location are also amazing. They have to be one of the best sunsets I have ever seen. Also we were visited by manatees & dolphins while taking our sunset pictures. The price for this venue are extremely affordability for people on a budget. I definitely recommend this location.Sent on 07/16/2013
User2753418 · 2+ years ago
Beautiful setting on the Gulf of Mexico. Unfortunately we had a shower of rain but the ceremony inside was just as pretty. The sun came out immediately afterwards so we have stunning pictures at sunset just like the happy couple had wanted.Sent on 11/04/2012
The only down side was a lack of changing space for the Bride and a shortage of bathrooms.
Tori Elizabeth · Married on 11/10/2018
Beautiful All in One Venue
We booked the Hernando Beach Club for wedding in Nov 2018. The venue itself was perfect for both our ceremony and reception. Limited on places to do photos and we did have some severe miscommunication at the end of the night when the wedding ended versus when we had to be out of the building. However, overall, we had a very positive experience with them and would recommend. I would just advise caution to make sure all ideas and wants are clearly expressed prior to the wedding.Sent on 01/13/2019