An analytical model for software-only main memory compression
WMPI '04 Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Memory performance issues: in conjunction with the 31st international symposium on computer architecture
A Robust Main-Memory Compression Scheme
Proceedings of the 32nd annual international symposium on Computer Architecture
Adaptive main memory compression
ATEC '05 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Improving disk bandwidth-bound applications through main memory compression
MEDEA '07 Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on MEmory performance: DEaling with Applications, systems and architecture
Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Supercomputing
Decoupled zero-compressed memory
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on High Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers
A software reproduction of virtual memory for deeply embedded systems
ICCSA'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part I
Compressed swapping for NAND flash memory based embedded systems
SAMOS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded Computer Systems: architectures, Modeling, and Simulation
Linearly compressed pages: a low-complexity, low-latency main memory compression framework
Proceedings of the 46th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
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In this paper, we reevaluate the use of adaptive compressed caching in order to improve system performance through reduction of accesses to the backing stores. We propose a new and simple adaptability policy that adjusts the compressed cache size on-the-fly, and evaluate a compressed caching system with this policy through an implementation in a widely used operating system, Linux.We also redesign compressed caching in order to provide performance improvements for all tested workloads and address the problems faced in previous works and implementations that led to non-conclusive results. Among these fundamental modifications, our compressed cache is the first one to also compress file cache pages, to adaptively disable compression of clean pages when necessary and to address applications with poor compressibility.We tested a system with our adaptive compressed cache under many applications and benchmarks, each one with different memory pressures. The results showed performanceimprovements (up to 171.4%) in all of them if under memory pressure, and minimal overhead (up to 0.39%) when there is very light memory pressure. We believe this work shows that this adaptive compressed cache design should be actually considered as an effective mechanismfor improvement in system performance.