Due to large instruction footprints, contemporary data center applications suffer from
frequent frontend stalls. Despite being a significant contributor to these stalls, the Branch …

To accommodate very large instruction footprints, modern high-performance processors rely
on fetch directed instruction prefetching through huge branch predictors and a hierarchy of …

Modern processors rely on various speculative mechanisms to meet performance demand.
Branch predictors are one of the most important micro-architecture components to deliver …

Datacenter applications are well-known for their large code footprints. This has caused
frontend design to evolve by implementing decoupled fetching and large prediction …

Growing application sizes continue to strain the memory system. As more complex
applications are developed, and the instruction memory footprint increases, the cache …

Modern out-of-order cores rely on a large instruction supply from the processor frontend to
achieve high performance. This requires building wider pipelines with more accurate branch …

Instruction prefetching is instrumental for guaranteeing a high flow of instructions through the
processor front end for applications whose working set does not fit in the lower-level caches …

Increases in code footprint and control flow complexity have made low-latency instruction
fetch challenging. Dedicated Instruction Prefetchers (DIPs) can provide performance gains …

One of the performance bottlenecks of a processor is the front-end that supplies instructions.
Various techniques, such as cache replacement algorithms and hardware prefetching, have …

Enhancing Processor Performance : Approaches for Memory Characterization, Efficient
Dynamic Instruction Prefetching, and Optimized Instruction Caching diva-portal.org Digitala …