Adaptive insertion policies for high performance caching
Proceedings of the 34th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Counter-Based Cache Replacement and Bypassing Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Adaptive set pinning: managing shared caches in chip multiprocessors
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Adaptive insertion policies for managing shared caches
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Parallel architectures and compilation techniques
PIPP: promotion/insertion pseudo-partitioning of multi-core shared caches
Proceedings of the 36th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
A study of replacement algorithms for a virtual-storage computer
IBM Systems Journal
High performance cache replacement using re-reference interval prediction (RRIP)
Proceedings of the 37th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Adaptive timekeeping replacement: Fine-grained capacity management for shared CMP caches
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
Scalable shared-cache management by containing thrashing workloads
HiPEAC'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers
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Current day multicore processors employ multi-level cache hierarchy with one or two levels of private caches and a shared last-level cache (LLC). Efficient cache replacement policies at LLC are essential for reducing the off-chip memory traffic as well as contention for memory bandwidth. Cache replacement techniques for unicore LLCs may not be efficient for multicore LLCs as multicore LLCs can be shared by applications with varying access behavior, running simultaneously. One application may dominate another by flooding of cache requests and evicting the useful data of the other application. This paper proposes a new cache replacement policy for shared LLC called Application-aware Cache Replacement (ACR). ACR policy prevents victimizing low-access rate application by a high-access rate application. It dynamically keeps track of maximum life-time of cache lines in shared LLC for each concurrent application and helps in efficient utilization of the cache space. Experimental evaluation of ACR technique for 2-core and 4-core systems using SPEC CPU 2000 and 2006 benchmark suites shows significant speed-up improvement over the least recently used and thread-aware dynamic re-reference interval prediction techniques.