Title
A case for bad big.LITTLE switching: how to scale power-performance in SI-HMP
Abstract
Recently, single-ISA heterogemeous multi-core processors (SI-HMP) draw attention, pursuing optimal power-performance scaling. Leveraging differently optimized heterogeneous cores, SI-HMP can dynamically tune performance with minimal additional power consumption, or it can find maximum performance core combination with respect to a given power budget. However, the little-to-big, or big-to-little core switching has hidden costs. To properly scale up/down the power-performance, we should carefully analyze the actual performance gain, considering the multi-core processing model and inter-cluster communication. This paper reveals that there are some good and bad cases for core switching, and presents a possible way to achieve good power-performance scaling through big-little switching.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2818613.2818745
HotPower@SOSP
Field
DocType
Citations 
Power budget,Simulation,Engineering,Power performance,Scaling,Reliability engineering,Power consumption
Conference
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
See-hwan Yoo18610.96
YoonSeok Shim240.47
Seunghac Lee340.47
Sang-Ah Lee440.47
Joongheon Kim561181.49