Per-Thread Cycle Accounting

Author

Eyerman, Stijn ; Eeckhout, Lieven

Author_Institution

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

Volume

30

Issue

1

fYear

2010

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

80

Abstract

Resource sharing unpredictably affects per-thread performance in multithreaded architectures, but system software assumes all coexecuting threads make equal progress. Per-thread cycle accounting addresses this problem by tracking per-thread progress rates for each coexecuting thread. This approach has the potential to improve Quality Of Service (QoS), Service-Level Agreements (SLA), performance predictability, service differentiation, and proportional-share performance on multithreaded architectures.

Keywords

computer architecture; multi-threading; multiprocessing systems; resource allocation; multithreaded architecture; performance predictability; perthread cycle accounting; perthread performance; perthread progress rate; proportional share performance; quality of service improvement; resource sharing; service differentiation; service level agreement; system software; Application software; Computer architecture; Microprocessors; Multicore processing; Multithreading; Quality of service; Resource management; Surface-mount technology; System software; Yarn; multicore; multithreaded architectures; per-thread cycle accounting; system software;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Micro, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1732

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MM.2010.23

Filename

5430741