Practice Performance Of Pipelining (3.7) - Pipelining

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Question 1.
What is throughput in the context of pipelining?
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Think about how often instructions are completed.
Question 2.
How is latency defined?
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Consider the journey of one instruction.
3Question 3.
What is the primary benefit of pipelining?
- Increased power consumption
- Increased throughput
- Decreased latency
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Think about the efficiency of processing multiple instructions.
4Question 4.
Latency refers to the total time for an instruction to pass through the pipeline.
- True
- False
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Consider how long one instruction takes to process.
Question 5.
Consider a system where latency increases due to stages in a pipeline. Propose a scenario when higher latency might not severely impact performance.
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Think about operations that don't depend on each other.
Question 6.
Evaluate a situation where pipelining may lead to diminishing returns on speedup. Discuss what factors cause this effect.
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Consider what happens when instructions depend on one another.

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