Capacity Misses based Dynamic Shared Cache Partitioning for Multi-Core Processors

José L. Hamkalo, Claudio A. Carballal, and Bruno Cernuschi-Frías

Keywords

Shared Cache, Multi-Core Processor, Dynamic Cache Administration

Abstract

A dynamic shared cache partitioning scheme for multi-core processors is presented. Capacity misses produced by the running processes are continuously evaluated and used to assign the available space in a shared cache memory. The administration of the resources gets a reduction of up a 20% in the global miss rate of all the executed processes when compared to a Capitalist management policy. Also IPC and bandwidth were evaluated. The dynamic management proposed fulfills its objective of managing the shared cache space for every process while improving the performance.

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