Unifying fixed code and fixed data mapping of load-imbalanced pipelined loops

Some loops with cross-iteration dependences can execute in parallel by pipelining. The loop body is partitioned into stages such that the data dependences are not violated and then the stages are mapped onto threads. Two well-known mapping techniques ...

• A practical technique to achieve load-balancing for linear pipelines is presented.

Pipelining is a well-known technique to overlap loop iterations by partitioning the loop body into a sequence of stages. A large class of programs can be expressed as linear pipelines if data dependences only flow from earlier to later ...

Pipelining allows the execution of loop iterations with cross-iteration dependences to overlap in time, provided that the loop body is partitioned into stages such that the data dependences are not violated. Then, the stages are mapped onto threads and ...