Coordinated Management of Processor Configuration and Cache Partitioning to Optimize Energy under QoS Constraints
Paper in proceeding, 2020

An effective way to improve energy efficiency is to throttle hardware resources to meet a certain QoS target, specified as a performance constraint, associated with all applications running on a multicore system. Prior art has proposed resource management (RM) frameworks in which the share of the last-level cache (LLC) assigned to each processor core and the voltage-frequency (VF) setting for each core is managed in a coordinated fashion to reduce energy. A drawback of such a scheme is that, while one core gives up LLC resources for another core, the performance drop must be compensated by a higher VF setting which leads to a quadratic increase in energy consumption. By allowing each core to be adapted to exploit instruction and memory-level parallelism (ILP/MLP), substantially higher energy savings are enabled.This paper proposes a coordinated RM for LLC partitioning, processor adaptation, and per-core VF scaling. A first contribution is a systematic study of the resource trade-offs enabled when trading between the three classes of resources in a coordinated fashion. A second contribution is a new RM framework that utilizes these trade-offs to save more energy. Finally, a challenge to accurately model the impact of resource throttling on performance is to predict the amount of MLP with high accuracy. To this end, the paper contributes with a mechanism that estimates the effect of MLP over different processor configurations and LLC allocations. Overall, we show that up to 18% of energy, and on average 10%, can be saved using the proposed scheme.

Performance and energy modeling

Dynamic voltage-frequency scaling

Resource management

Reconfigurable architectures

Memory level parallelism

Multicore processor

Quality of service

Cache partitioning

Author

Mehrzad Nejat

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Computer Engineering (Chalmers)

Madhavan Manivannan

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Computer Engineering (Chalmers)

Miquel Pericas

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Computer Engineering (Chalmers)

Per Stenström

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Computer Engineering (Chalmers)

Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 34th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2020

590-601 9139837

34th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2020
New Orleans, USA,

Subject Categories

Computer Engineering

Embedded Systems

Computer Systems

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

DOI

10.1109/IPDPS47924.2020.00067

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