PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT UNIT (PMU) AIDED TIER SELECTION IN HETEROGENEOUS MEMORY

    公开(公告)号:US20200310957A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-01

    申请号:US16370543

    申请日:2019-03-29

    Abstract: A processor including a processing core to execute an instruction prior to executing a memory allocation call; one or more last branch record (LBR) registers to store one or more recently retired branch instructions; a performance monitoring unit (PMU) comprising a logic circuit to: retrieve the one or more recently retired branch instructions from the one or more LBR registers; identify, based on the retired branch instructions, a signature of the memory allocation call; provide the signature to software to determine a memory tier to allocate memory for the memory allocation call.

    Methods and apparatus to optimize dynamic memory assignments in multi-tiered memory systems

    公开(公告)号:US10481817B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-19

    申请号:US16022339

    申请日:2018-06-28

    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to optimize dynamic memory assignments in multi-tiered memory systems are disclosed. An example computer readable storage medium comprises instructions to, during an offline profiling run of a computer application: responsive to a first malloc function call, perform a first backtrace to identify a first path preceding the first malloc function call and identify a size of a buffer in memory allocated to the first path; and determine an indicator corresponding to a temperature of the buffer allocated to the first path; and during runtime: responsive to a second malloc function call, perform a second backtrace to identify a second path preceding the second malloc function call; and responsive to the second path corresponding to the first path, allocate memory from a tier of memory based on the indicator.

    METHODS AND APPARATUS TO OPTIMIZE DYNAMIC MEMORY ASSIGNMENTS IN MULTI-TIERED MEMORY SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20190042124A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-07

    申请号:US16022339

    申请日:2018-06-28

    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to optimize dynamic memory assignments in multi-tiered memory systems are disclosed. An example computer readable storage medium comprises instructions to, during an offline profiling run of a computer application: responsive to a first malloc function call, perform a first backtrace to identify a first path preceding the first malloc function call and identify a size of a buffer in memory allocated to the first path; and determine an indicator corresponding to a temperature of the buffer allocated to the first path; and during runtime: responsive to a second malloc function call, perform a second backtrace to identify a second path preceding the second malloc function call; and responsive to the second path corresponding to the first path, allocate memory from a tier of memory based on the indicator.

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