摘要:
A method and system for detecting race conditions computing systems. A parallel computing system includes multiple processor cores is coupled to memory. An application with a code sequence in which parallelism to be exploited is executed on this system. Different processor cores may operate on a given memory line concurrently. Extra bits are associated with the memory data line and are used to indicate changes to corresponding subsections of data in the memory line. A memory controller may perform a comparison between check bits of a memory line to determine if more than one processor core modified the same section of data in a cache line and a race condition has occurred.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for reducing cache flush time of a cache in a computer system. The method includes populating at least one of a plurality of directory entries of a dirty line directory based on modification of the cache to form at least one populated directory entry, and de-populating a pre-determined number of the plurality of directory entries according to a dirty line limiter protocol causing a write-back from the cache to a main memory, where the dirty line limiter protocol is based on a number of the at least one populated directory entry exceeding a pre-defined limit.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for reducing cache flush time of a cache in a computer system. The method includes populating at least one of a plurality of directory entries of a dirty line directory based on modification of the cache to form at least one populated directory entry, and de-populating a pre-determined number of the plurality of directory entries according to a dirty line limiter protocol causing a write-back from the cache to a main memory, where the dirty line limiter protocol is based on a number of the at least one populated directory entry exceeding a pre-defined limit.
摘要:
Multiprocessor systems conducting operations utilizing global shared memory must ensure that the memory is coherent. A hybrid system that combines hardware memory transactions with that of direct messaging provides memory coherence with minimal overhead requirement or bandwidth demands. Memory access transactions are intercepted and converted to direct messages which are then communicated to a target and/or remote node. Thereafter the message invokes a software handler which implements the cache coherence protocol. The handler uses additional messages to invalidate or fetch data in other caches, as well as to return data to the requesting processor. These additional messages are converted to appropriate hardware transactions by the destination system interface hardware.
摘要:
A method of detecting transmission collisions in an optical data interconnect system including a transmitting node, a plurality of receiving nodes, and one or more remaining nodes connected through an optical data channel. The method includes initiating a data transmission of a data signal from the transmitting node over the optical data channel, transmitting a first collision detect signal from the transmitting node throughout a duration of the data transmission where the first collision detect signal is transmitted over an optical detection channel corresponding to the transmitting node, monitoring at the transmitting node of the optical data interconnect system for a predetermined period of time, where the optical data interconnect system further includes a plurality of optical collision detection channels corresponding to each of the plurality of receiving nodes and the one or more remaining nodes, and identifying a transmission collision when a second collision signal is received through one of the plurality of optical collision detection channels at the transmitting node during the predetermined period of time.
摘要:
A method of arbitrating data transmissions to prevent data collisions in an optical data interconnect system including a transmitting node, a plurality of receiving nodes, and one or more remaining nodes connected through an optical data channel. The method involves transmitting a transmission request signal from the transmitting node over an arbitration channel corresponding to the transmitting node, monitoring, at the transmitting node, a plurality of arbitration channels corresponding to each of the plurality of receiving nodes and the one or more remaining nodes at the transmitting node for a predetermined period of time, determining a start time for a data transmission from the transmitting node based on the monitored signals to prevent a data collision, and initiating a data transmission of a data signal from the transmitting node over the optical data channel at the determined start time.
摘要:
Multiprocessor systems conducting operations utilizing global shared memory must ensure that the memory is coherent. A hybrid system that combines hardware memory transactions with that of direct messaging provides memory coherence with minimal overhead requirement or bandwidth demands. Memory access transactions are intercepted and converted to direct messages which are then communicated to a target and/or remote node. Thereafter the message invokes a software handler which implements the cache coherence protocol. The handler uses additional messages to invalidate or fetch data in other caches, as well as to return data to the requesting processor. These additional messages are converted to appropriate hardware transactions by the destination system interface hardware.
摘要:
A method of controlling memory operations in a transactional shared memory system having a plurality of nodes connected through an interconnect network. The method includes initiating a memory operation at a first node including a first memory controller and a transaction table where the transaction table is configured to store a list of nodes affected by the memory operation, transmitting a store request signal through the interconnect network to a second node including a second memory controller and an access table where the store request signal includes memory operation data from the first memory controller, storing memory operation data to the access table in entries corresponding to one or more memory addresses affected by the memory operation, identifying a memory conflict with one or more nodes in the list of nodes when the one or more memory addresses affected by the memory operation are also affected by one or more conflicting transactions listed in the access table, transmitting an abort signal from the second node to each of the one or more nodes corresponding to the memory conflict, and transmitting an intent to commit signal from the first node to the second node.
摘要:
A method, including: initiating a memory operation at a first node including a first memory controller (MC) and a transaction table configured to store a list of nodes affected by the memory operation, transmitting a store request signal to a second node including a second MC and an access table (AT) where the store request signal includes data from the first MC, storing data to the AT in entries corresponding to memory address(es) (MAs) affected by the memory operation, identifying a memory conflict with one or more nodes in the list of nodes when the MAs affected by the memory operation are also affected by one or more conflicting transactions listed in the AT, transmitting an abort signal from the second node to each of the nodes corresponding to the memory conflict, and transmitting an intent to commit signal from the first node to the second node.
摘要:
A method of detecting transmission collisions in an optical data interconnect system. The method includes initiating a data transmission of a data signal from a transmitting node over the optical data channel, transmitting a first collision detect signal from the transmitting node throughout a duration of the data transmission where the first collision detect signal is transmitted over an optical detection channel corresponding to the transmitting node, monitoring at the transmitting node of the optical data interconnect system for a predetermined period of time, where the optical data interconnect system further includes optical collision detection channels corresponding to each of a plurality of receiving nodes and one or more remaining nodes, and identifying a transmission collision when a second collision signal is received through one of the optical collision detection channels at the transmitting node during the predetermined period of time.