Dead on Arrival: Characterizing and Protecting Against Dead-Entry TLB Misses in GPU Microarchitectures

Shafayat Mowla Anik, Yongchan Jung, Jeeho Ryoo +1

GPU workloads with large memory footprints frequently suffer from redundant L2 TLB misses in which a recently evicted translation is immediately re-walked at full page-walk cost. W…