System-Level Performance Metrics for Multiprogram Workloads

Author

Eyerman, Stijn ; Eeckhout, Lieven

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Syst., Ghent Univ., Ghent

Volume

28

Issue

3

fYear

2008

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

53

Abstract

Assessing the performance of multiprogram workloads running on multithreaded hardware is difficult because it involves a balance between single-program performance and overall system performance. This article argues for developing multiprogram performance metrics in a top-down fashion starting from system-level objectives. The authors propose two performance metrics: average normalized turnaround time, a user-oriented metric, and system throughput, a system-oriented metric.

Keywords

multi-threading; multiprocessing systems; multiprogramming; performance evaluation; average normalized turnaround time; multiprogram workload; multithreaded hardware; performance assessment; single-program performance; system throughput; system-level objectives; system-level performance metrics; system-oriented metric; user-oriented metric; Bandwidth; Computer science; Hardware; Measurement; Moore´s Law; Multicore processing; Research and development; System performance; System software; Throughput; fairness; multiprogram workloads; normalized turnaround time; performance metrics; system throughput;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Micro, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1732

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MM.2008.44

Filename

4550859