Evaluating the Performance of Cache-Affinity Scheduling in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors Export

@article{citeulike:2682217, abstract = {As a process executes on a CPU, it builds up state in that CPU's cache. In multiprogrammed workloads, the opportunity to reuse this state may be lost when a process gets rescheduled, either because intervening processes destroy its cache state or because the process may migrate to another processor. In this paper, we explore affinity scheduling, a technique that helps reduce cache misses by preferentially scheduling a process on a CPU where it has run recently. Our study focuses on a bus-based...}, author = {Torrellas, J. and Tucker, A. and Gupta, A.}, citeulike-article-id = {2682217}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.49.5869}, journal = {Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing}, keywords = {cs533}, number = {2}, pages = {139--151}, posted-at = {2008-04-17 15:40:04}, priority = {2}, title = {Evaluating the Performance of Cache-Affinity Scheduling in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.49.5869}, volume = {24}, year = {1995} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2682217 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2682217 N2 - As a process executes on a CPU, it builds up state in that CPU's cache. In multiprogrammed workloads, the opportunity to reuse this state may be lost when a process gets rescheduled, either because intervening processes destroy its cache state or because the process may migrate to another processor. In this paper, we explore affinity scheduling, a technique that helps reduce cache misses by preferentially scheduling a process on a CPU where it has run recently. Our study focuses on a bus-based... IS - 2 JF - Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing EP - 151 TI - Evaluating the Performance of Cache-Affinity Scheduling in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors VL - 24 SP - 139 KW - cs533 AU - Torrellas, J AU - Tucker, A AU - Gupta, A PY - 1995/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.49.5869 ER -