FCCM: A Novel Inter-Core Communication Mechanism in Multi-Core Platform

Author

Luo, Cheng ; Bai, Yuebin ; Xu, Cong ; Zhang, Liang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Beihang Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

26-28 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

215

Lastpage

218

Abstract

With the increasing number of cores integrated on a single chip, inter-core communication becomes more important in how to effectively support applications on multi-core platform. In this paper, we analyse the characteristics of multi-core tasks and classify processor cores into two categories based on their different functions: control core and computing core. According to the classification, we design a novel inter-core communication mechanism which includes three communication paths. With these paths, we can improve the utilization of multi-core by migrating the I/O part of applications from computing core to control core. Experiment results have proved the efficiency of them.

Keywords

microprocessor chips; parallel architectures; FCCM; computing core; control core; multicore platform; novel intercore communication mechanism; processor cores; Application software; Communication system control; Computer applications; Computer architecture; Computer science; Costs; Information science; Multicore processing; Performance analysis; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Science and Engineering (ICISE), 2009 1st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4909-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICISE.2009.589

Filename

5454731