Debattista, Kurt, Vella, Kevin and Cordina, Joseph (2002) Cache-affinity scheduling for fine grain multithreading. In: Communicating Process Architectures 2002 : WoTUG-25, University of Reading, UK, 15-18 Sep 2002. Published in: Communicating Process Architectures 2002 : WoTUG-25 pp. 135-146. ISSN 1586032682.

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Abstract

Cache utilisation is often very poor in multithreaded applications, due to the loss of data access locality incurred by frequent context switching. This problem
is compounded on shared memory multiprocessors when dynamic load balancing is introduced and thread migration disrupts cache content. In this paper, we present a
technique, which we refer to as ‘batching’, for reducing the negative impact of fine grain multithreading on cache performance. Prototype schedulers running on uniprocessors and shared memory multiprocessors are described, and finally experimental results which illustrate the improvements observed after applying our techniques are presented.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Paper)
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group)
Journal or Publication Title:	Communicating Process Architectures 2002 : WoTUG-25
Publisher:	IOP Publishing
ISSN:	1586032682
Official Date:	2002
Dates:	Date Event 2002 Published
Page Range:	pp. 135-146
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Conference Paper Type:	Paper
Title of Event:	Communicating Process Architectures 2002 : WoTUG-25
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	University of Reading, UK
Date(s) of Event:	15-18 Sep 2002

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