Cuckoopim: An Efficient And Less-Blocking Coherence Mechanism For Processing-In-Memory Systems

The ever-growing processing ability of in-memory processing logic makes the data sharing and coherence between processors and in-memory logic play an increasingly important role in Processing-in-Memory (PIM) systems. Unfortunately, the existing state-of-the-art coarse-grained PIM coherence solutions suffer from unnecessary data movements and stalls caused by a data ping-pong issue. This work proposes CuckooPlM, a criticality-aware and less-blocking coherence mechanism, which can effectively avoid unnecessary data movements and stalls. Experiments reveal that CuckooPIM achieves 1.68x speedup on average comparing with coarse-grained PIM coherence.