Timing predictability of cache replacement policies

  • Authors:
  • Jan Reineke;Daniel Grund;Christoph Berg;Reinhard Wilhelm

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany;Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany;Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany;Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Real-Time Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Hard real-time systems must obey strict timing constraints. Therefore, one needs to derive guarantees on the worst-case execution times of a system's tasks. In this context, predictable behavior of system components is crucial for the derivation of tight and thus useful bounds. This paper presents results about the predictability of common cache replacement policies. To this end, we introduce three metrics, evict, fill, and mls that capture aspects of cache-state predictability. A thorough analysis of the LRU, FIFO, MRU, and PLRU policies yields the respective values under these metrics. To the best of our knowledge, this work presents the first quantitative, analytical results for the predictability of replacement policies. Our results support empirical evidence in static cache analysis.