Static cache partitioning can reduce inter- application cache interference and improve the composite performance of a cache-polluted application and a cache- sensitive application when they run on cores that share the...Static cache partitioning can reduce inter- application cache interference and improve the composite performance of a cache-polluted application and a cache- sensitive application when they run on cores that share the last level cache in the same multi-core processor. In a virtu- alized system, since different applications might run on dif- ferent virtual machines （VMs） in different time, it is inappli- cable to partition the cache statically in advance. This paper proposes a dynamic cache partitioning scheme that makes use of hot page detection and page migration to improve the com- posite performance of co-hosted virtual machines dynami- cally according to prior knowledge of cache-sensitive appli- cations. Experimental results show that the overhead of our page migration scheme is low, while in most cases, the com- posite performance is an improvement over free composition.展开更多
文摘Static cache partitioning can reduce inter- application cache interference and improve the composite performance of a cache-polluted application and a cache- sensitive application when they run on cores that share the last level cache in the same multi-core processor. In a virtu- alized system, since different applications might run on dif- ferent virtual machines （VMs） in different time, it is inappli- cable to partition the cache statically in advance. This paper proposes a dynamic cache partitioning scheme that makes use of hot page detection and page migration to improve the com- posite performance of co-hosted virtual machines dynami- cally according to prior knowledge of cache-sensitive appli- cations. Experimental results show that the overhead of our page migration scheme is low, while in most cases, the com- posite performance is an improvement over free composition.
