Recovery of Performance Degradation in Defective Branch Target Buffers

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Filippou, Filippos [1 ]
Keramidas, Georgios [1 ]
Mavropoulos, Michail [1 ]
Nikolos, Dimitris [1 ]
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[1] Univ Patras, Dept Comp Engn & Informat, GR-26500 Patras, Greece
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is a commonly-used power-management technique. Unfortunately, voltage scaling increases the impact of process variations on memory cells reliability resulting in an exponential increase in the number of malfunctioning memory cells. In this work, we systematically investigate the behavior of branch target buffers (BTB) with faulty memory cells. Although being an intrinsically fault-tolerant unit (i.e., it does not affect correctness of the system), as we show in this work for several fault probabilities and core configurations, disabling the faulty parts of BTBs can damage the performance of the executing applications. To remedy the negative impact of malfunctioning BTB memory cells in contemporary BTB organizations, we present an ultra lightweight performance recovery mechanism. The proposed mechanism introduces minimal hardware overheads and practically-zero delays. Using cycle-accurate simulations, the benchmarks of SPEC2006 suite, a plethora of memory fault maps, and two fault probabilities corresponding to low supply voltages, we show the effectiveness of the proposed recovery mechanism.
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