Fault-containment in cache memories for TMR redundant processor systems

Chung Ho Chen, Arun K. Somani

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摘要

Cache data errors read by a processor may cause CPU control flow error and force the system to enter a CPU-cache reintegration process in redundant processor systems. The reintegration process degrades the system performance and reliability. To reduce the occurrences of such an event, we propose a real-time error recovery scheme that provides effective fault-containment for data errors in cache memories. The scheme is based on cache data broadcasting of a dirty line after modification. It effectively exploits the redundancy of a fault-tolerant system using hardware voting. The scheme recovers from erroneous cache data written by a processor with full coverage. This error recovery feature remedies the insufficiency of error-correcting codes that are unable to prevent such an error. In addition, more than 60 percent of cache lines are fully covered for recovery due to errors originated from the cache itself, including unrecoverable ECC errors. The protocol can also be used to speedup the CPU-cache reintegration process for a temporarily failed processor. The performance overhead of the protocol is to broadcast only 2-3 percent of the total memory references.

原文English
頁(從 - 到)386-397
頁數12
期刊IEEE Transactions on Computers
48
發行號4
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 1999

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 軟體
  • 理論電腦科學
  • 硬體和架構
  • 計算機理論與數學

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