Summary
International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications
2016
Session Number:M1-6
Session:
Number:M1-6-4
Efficient Way-based Cache Partitioning for Low-Associativity Cache
Byunghoon Lee, Eui-Young Chung ,
pp.93-96
Publication Date:2016/7/10
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Cache Partitioning is well-known technique to reduce destructive interference among co-running applications in a shared last-level cache (SLLC). Way-based cache partitioning is a popular partitioning scheme due to its simplicity, but it can dramatically reduce associativity of each partition. Also, most SLLC have limited associativity because the higher associativity causes the higher cache access latency and power consumption. Therefore, we present Selective Cache Partitioning (SCP), a novel way-based cache partitioning technique for SLLC with the low associativity. SCP detects outstanding applications causing heavy cache pollution by on-line profiling and isolates them in private partitions. Then, it allocates non-outstanding applications to a shared partition, thereby partitioning SLLC selectively and providing more associativity to applications by sharing the partition. We provide experimental results to show the efficiency of SCP.