Application-aware prioritization mechanisms for on-chip networks
Reetuparna Das, Onur Mutlu, Thomas Moscibroda, Chita R. Das · 2009
Network-on-Chips (NoCs) are likely to become a critical shared resource in future many-core processors. The challenge is to develop policies and mechanisms that enable multiple applications to efficiently and fairly share the network, to improve system performance. Existing local packet scheduling policies in the routers fail to fully achieve this goal, because they treat every packet equally, regardless of which application issued the packet.