FlexBulk
Rishi Raj Agarwal, Josep Torrellas · 2011
Blocked-execution multiprocessor architectures continuously run atomic blocks of instructions --- also called Chunks. Such architectures can boost both performance and software productivity, and enable unique compiler optimization opportunities. Unfortunately, they are handicapped in that, if they use large chunks to minimize chunk-commit overhead and to enable more compiler optimization, inter-thread data conflicts may lead to frequent chunk squashes.