Integrated support to improve inter-thread communication and synchronization in a multithreaded processor

Chiun Shiu Chen; Chien-Chao Tseng

doi:10.1109/ICPADS.1994.590359

Integrated support to improve inter-thread communication and synchronization in a multithreaded processor

Chiun Shiu Chen^*, Chien-Chao Tseng

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Computer Science

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This paper presents an integrated compiler, runtime control, and hardware solution to improve inter-thread communication and synchronization in a multithreaded processor architecture. Multithreading improves processor utilization by exploiting more parallelism. The improvement in utilization, however, is hindered by inter-thread communication and synchronization problems, which incur extra communication overhead and thus degrade the performance of the system. In this paper, we propose efficient inter-thread communication and synchronization schemes based on a superscalar DLX processor with multithreading functionality. The compiler, runtime control, and hardware support used in the schemes are discussed. Simulations are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed schemes.

Original language	English
Pages	481-486
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPADS.1994.590359
State	Published - 1994
Event	Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Hsinchu, China Duration: 19 Dec 1994 → 21 Dec 1994

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Conference	Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems
City	Hsinchu, China
Period	19/12/94 → 21/12/94

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