Basic Block Distribution Analysis to Find Periodic Behavior and Simulation Points in Applications
Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques
Memory resource management in VMware ESX server
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - OSDI '02: Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
ASPLOS XI Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Dynamic tracking of page miss ratio curve for memory management
ASPLOS XI Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
The DaCapo benchmarks: java benchmarking development and analysis
Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Geiger: monitoring the buffer cache in a virtual machine environment
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
CRAMM: virtual memory support for garbage-collected applications
OSDI '06 Proceedings of the 7th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
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Virtual machine memory access tracing with hypervisor exclusive cache
ATC'07 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference on Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference
RapidMRC: approximating L2 miss rate curves on commodity systems for online optimizations
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Dynamic memory balancing for virtual machines
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Towards practical page coloring-based multicore cache management
Proceedings of the 4th ACM European conference on Computer systems
Evaluation techniques for storage hierarchies
IBM Systems Journal
Leveraging phase change memory to achieve efficient virtual machine execution
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Ginseng: market-driven memory allocation
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
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Efficient memory resource management requires knowledge of the memory demands of applications or systems at runtime. A widely proposed approach is to construct an LRU-based miss ratio curve (MRC), which provides not only the current working set size (WSS) but also the relationship between performance and target memory allocation size. Unfortunately, the cost of LRUMRC monitoring is nontrivial. Although optimized with AVL-tree based LRU structure and dynamic hot set sizing, the overhead is still as high as 16% on average. Based on a key insight that for most programs the WSSs are stable most of the time, we design an intermittent tracking scheme, which can temporarily turn off memory tracking when memory demands are predicted to be stable. With the assistance of hardware performance counters, memory tracking can be turned on again if a significant change in memory demands is expected. Experimental results show that, by using this intermittent tracking design, memory tracking can be turned off for 82% of the execution time while the accuracy loss is no more than 4%. More importantly, this design is orthogonal to existing optimizing techniques, such as AVL-tree based LRU structure and dynamic hot set sizing. By combining the three approaches, the mean overhead is lowered to only 2%. We show that when applied to memory balancing for virtual machines, our scheme brings a speedup of 1.85.