ATUM: a new technique for capturing address traces using microcode
ISCA '86 Proceedings of the 13th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
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ISCA '89 Proceedings of the 16th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
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ASPLOS IV Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Design tradeoffs for software-managed TLBs
ISCA '93 Proceedings of the 20th annual international symposium on computer architecture
A new methodology for accurate trace collection and its application to memory hierarchy performance modeling
Generation and analysis of very long address traces
ISCA '90 Proceedings of the 17th annual international symposium on Computer Architecture
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Cache Performance in the VAX-11/780
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A Comparison of Trace-Sampling Techniques for Multi-Megabyte Caches
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Reuse-based online models for caches
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS/international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
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We discuss some of the difficulties present in trace collection and trace-driven cache simulation. We then describe our multiprocessor tracing technique and verify that it accurately collects long traces. We propose sampling as a method to reduce required disk space, enable simulations to run faster, and effectively enlarge the trace buffer of our hardware monitor, decreasing trace distortion. To this end, we investigate time sampling and two types of set sampling. We conclude that the second set sampling technique achieves the most accurate results. The miss rate for the second set sampling method is calculated as the number of misses to sampled sets divided by the total number of references scaled by the sample size. We determined that a 10% sample size was the most accurate while still reducing required disk space.