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Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (7th Edition)

7th Edition

ISBN:9780133594140

Author:James Kurose, Keith Ross

Publisher:James Kurose, Keith Ross

Chapter1: Computer Networks And The Internet

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem R1RQ: What is the difference between a host and an end system? List several different types of end...

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Q25. A group of students were debating the efficiency of the five-stage pipeline when one student pointed out that not all instructions are active in every stage of the pipeline. After deciding to ignore the effects of hazards, they made the following five statements. Which ones are correct? Justify your observations. i) Allowing jumps, branches, and ALU instructions to take fewer stages than the five required 11 by the load instruction will increase pipeline performance under all circumstances. ii) Trying to allow some instructions to take fewer cycles does not help, since the throughput 1I is determined by the clock cycle; the number of pipe stages per instruction affects latency, not throughput. Allowing jumps, branches, and ALU operations to take fewer cycles only helps when no 1] loads or stores are in the pipeline, so the benefits are small. iv) Instead of trying to make instructions take fewer cycles, we should explore making the 12] pipeline longer, so that instructions take more cycles, but the cycles are shorter. This could improve performance.

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