Multicore Resource Management

Author

Nesbit, Kyle J. ; Moreto, Miquel ; Cazorla, Francisco J. ; Ramirez, Alex ; Valero, Mateo ; Smith, James E.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Volume

28

Issue

3

fYear

2008

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

16

Abstract

Current resource management mechanisms and policies are inadequate for future multicore systems. Instead, a hardware/software interface based on the virtual private machine abstraction would allow software policies to explicitly manage microarchitecture resources. VPM policies, implemented primarily in software, translate application and system objectives into VPM resource assignments. Then, VPM mechanisms securely multiplex, arbitrate, or distribute hardware resources to satisfy the VPM assignments.

Keywords

microprocessor chips; operating systems (computers); processor scheduling; resource allocation; virtual machines; VPM resource assignments; hardware-software interface; microarchitecture resources; multicore chip resource management; operating systems; software policies; virtual private machine abstraction; Application software; Costs; Hardware; High performance computing; Microarchitecture; Multicore processing; Operating systems; Resource management; System software; Yarn; multicore; quality of service; resource management;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Micro, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1732

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MM.2008.43

Filename

4550856