Title :
Multi-bank memory access scheduler and scalability
Author :
Liu, De-feng ; Pan, Guo-teng ; Xie, Lun-guo
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China
Abstract :
With the progress of semiconductor manufacture techniques and the development of processor architecture, the gap between processor and DRAM speed is becoming larger and larger, memory bandwidth is now the primary bottleneck of improving computer system performance. Modern DRAM provide several independent memory banks, according to this character, we present a virtual channel based memory access scheduler, and least wait time and read-fist schedule approach. This approach significantly reduce observed main memory access latency and improve the effective memory bandwidth.
Keywords :
DRAM chips; processor scheduling; storage management; DRAM speed; computer system performance; memory access latency; memory bandwidth; multibank memory access scheduler; semiconductor manufacture technique; virtual channel based memory access scheduler; Bandwidth; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer architecture; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing processes; Processor scheduling; Random access memory; Scalability; Semiconductor device manufacture; System performance; DRAM memory system; memory access scheduling; memory bandwidth; virtual channel;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Engineering and Technology (ICCET), 2010 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6347-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICCET.2010.5485729