Memory access Tracing/Profiling

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE DESIGNING FOR PERFORMANCE NINTH EDITION In terms of commercial products, the two common approaches to providing a multiple-processor system to support applications are SMPs and clusters. For some years, another

前言: 什么是RDMA? 简单来说,RDMA就是指不通过操作系统(OS)内核以及TCP/IP协议栈在网络上传输数据,因此延迟(latency)非常低,CPU消耗非常少. 下面给出一篇简单介绍RDMA的文章之中英文对照翻译. Introduction to Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) | RDMA概述 1. What is RDMA? | 什么是RDMA Direct memory access (DMA) is an ability of a devic

Memory Access Patterns 大部分device一开始从global Memory获取数据,而且,大部分GPU应用表现会被带宽限制.因此最大化应用对global Memory带宽的使用时获取高性能的第一步.也就是说,global Memory的使用就没调节好,其它的优化方案也获取不到什么大效果. Aligned and Coalesced Access 如下图所示,global Memory的load/store要经由cache,所有的数据会初始化在DRAM,也就是物理的devi

DMA(Direct Memory Access) DMA(Direct Memory Access)即直接存储器存取,是一种快速传送数据的机制. 工作原理 DMA是指外部设备不通过CPU而直接与系统内存交换数据的接口技术. 要把外设的数据读入内存或把内存的数据传送到外设,一般都要通过CPU控制完成,如CPU程序查询或中断方式.利用中断进行数据传送,可以大大提高CPU的利用率. 但是采用中断传送有它的缺点,对于一个高速I/O设备,以及批量交换数据的情况,只能采用DMA方式,才能解决效率和速度问题

对DMA内存的使用有3种方式: 1,一致DMA映射 通过dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag)来直接得到一块用于dma的内存,同时得到这一段内存的虚拟地址和总线地址,分别用于CPU和device的访问. 通过这种方式得到的dma内存,开发者不用担心cache的问题,但是要注意在执行DMA操作之前flush write buffer. 2.DMA池 DMA池是一个

One of the problems with developing embedded systems is the detection of memory leaks; I've found three tools that are useful for this. These tools are used to detect application program errors, not kernel memory leaks. Two of these tools (mtrace and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_protection_fault In memory errors, the faulting program accesses memory that it should not access. Examples include: Attempting to write to a read-only portion of memory Attempting to execute bytes in memory whic

Multi-processor systems are often implemented using a common system bus as the communication mechanism between CPU, memory, and I/O adapters. It is also common to include features on each CPU module, such as cache memory, that enhance the performance

In a particular embodiment, a circuit device includes a translation look-aside buffer (TLB) configured to receive a virtual address and to translate the virtual address to a physical address of a cache having at least two partitions. The circuit devi