Title :
Analysis of sharing overhead in shared memory multiprocessors
Author :
Foglia, Pierfrancesco ; Giorgi, Roberto ; Prete, Cosimo Antonio
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Ingegneria dell´´Inf., Pisa Univ., Italy
Abstract :
The aim of the work is to analyze the overhead caused by general-purpose workloads in managing shared cached copies and investigate the relations among workload features, process scheduling policies, and some architecture features, such as, processor and cache organization, and coherence protocol
Keywords :
cache storage; processor scheduling; protocols; shared memory systems; architecture features; cache organization; coherence protocol; general-purpose workloads; process scheduling policies; processor organization; shared cached copy management; shared memory multiprocessors; sharing overhead; workload features; Access protocols; Cache memory; Costs; Delay; Frequency; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Read-write memory; Telecommunication traffic;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1998., Proceedings of the Thirty-First Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kohala Coast, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8255-8
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1998.649284
