Efficient Regional Congestion Awareness (ERCA) for Load Balance with Aggregated Congestion Information
Sheng Xu, Jie Wu, Binzhang Fu, Mingyu Chen, Lixin Zhang · 2017
In this paper, we propose Efficient Regional Congestion Awareness (ERCA), a novel adaptive routing technique which utilizes both local and non-local/aggregated congestion information to estimate network congestion. To reduce the interference caused by the noises of the congestion information, two optimizations are performed: first, to minimize the noises of the congestion information, ERCA only considers the congestion status of the links adjacent to the nodes defined from current to the corresponding boundary, second, to minimize the influence of the noises, ERCA exploits dynamic instead of static weights to evaluate port's congestion. Furthermore, ERCA uses one wire per dimension direction or quadrant to transmit congestion information between two adjacent nodes, so the wiring overhead of ERCA is minimal. Compared with the DBAR, ERCA can maximally improve the saturation throughput by 11.7% and averagely improve the saturation throughput by 6.02%.