Title
Feedback control based cache reliability enhancement for emerging multicores
Abstract
Focusing on data reliability, we propose a control theory centric approach designed to improve transient error resilience in shared caches of emerging multicores while satisfying performance goals. The proposed scheme takes, as input, two quality of service (QoS) specifications: performance QoS and reliability QoS. The first of these indicates the minimum workload-wide cache (L2) hit rate value acceptable, whereas the second one captures the reliability bound on an application basis, with the help of a metric called the Reads-with-Replica (RwR). We present an extensive experimental evaluation of the proposed scheme on various workloads formed using the applications from the SPEC2006 benchmark suite. The proposed scheme is able to satisfy, in most of the tested cases, both performance and reliability QoS targets, by successfully modulating the total size of the data replication area and partitioning of this area among the co-runner applications. The collected results also show that our scheme achieves consistent improvements under different values of the major simulation parameters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ICCAD.2011.6105305
ICCAD
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
shared caches,data replication area,data reliability,cache storage,performance qos,data replication,quality of service,emerging multicores,reliability qos,co-runner application,transient error resilience,reads-with-replica metric,multiprocessing systems,spec2006 benchmark suite,application basis,quality of service specification,feedback,satisfying performance goal,cache reliability enhancement,feedback control,proposed scheme,reliability,control theory,reliability qos target,multiview video coding,motion estimation,satisfiability
Conference
1092-3152 E-ISBN : 978-1-4577-1398-9
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4577-1398-9
2
0.39
References 
Authors
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hui Zhao1587.16
Akbar Sharifi21235.99
Shekhar Srikantaiah321510.47
Mahmut T. Kandemir47371568.54