Credit borrow and repay: sharing DRAM with minimum latency and bandwidth guarantees
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Multi-port memory controllers (MPMC) play an important role in system-on-chips by coordinating accesses from different subsystems to shared DRAMs. The main challenge of MPMC design is optimize quality-of-service by simultaneously satisfying different---and often competing---requirements, including bandwidth and latency. While previous works have attempted to address the challenge, the proposed solutions are heuristic and often cannot provide bandwidth and/or latency guarantees. In this paper, we propose a new technique called Credit-Borrow-and-Repay (CBR) that augments a dynamic scheduling algorithm drawn from the networking community, improving it to achieve minimum latency while preserving minimum bandwidth guarantees. Our experiments show that on typical multimedia workloads, the cache response latency can be improved as much as 2.5X.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it