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Energy-Efficient Last-Level Cache Management for PCM Memory Systems

  • Bahn, Hyokyung (Department of Computer Engineering, Ewha University)
  • Received : 2022.01.13
  • Accepted : 2022.01.21
  • Published : 2022.02.28
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Abstract

The energy efficiency of memory systems is an important task in designing future computer systems as memory capacity continues to increase to accommodate the growing big data. In this article, we present an energy-efficient last-level cache management policy for future mobile systems. The proposed policy makes use of low-power PCM (phase-change memory) as the main memory medium, and reduces the amount of data written to PCM, thereby saving memory energy consumptions. To do so, the policy keeps track of the modified cache lines within each cache block, and replaces the last-level cache block that incurs the smallest PCM writing upon cache replacement requests. Also, the policy considers the access bit of cache blocks along with the cache line modifications in order not to degrade the cache hit ratio. Simulation experiments using SPEC benchmarks show that the proposed policy reduces the power consumption of PCM memory by 22.7% on average without degrading performances.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2019R1A2C1009275) and also by the ICT R&D program of MSIT/IITP (2020-0-00121, development of data improvement and dataset correction technology based on data quality assessment).

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