CPU accounting in CMP processors

Chip-MultiProcessors (CMP) introduce complexities when accounting CPU utilization to processes because the progress done by a process during an interval of time highly depends on the activity of the other processes it is co-scheduled with. We propose a new hardware accounting mechanism to improve th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Luque, Carlos, Moretó Planas, Miquel|||0000-0002-9848-8758, Cazorla, Francisco, Gioiosa, Roberto, Buyuktosunoglu, Alper, Valero Cortés, Mateo|||0000-0003-2917-2482
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/106188
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/106188
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/L-CA.2009.3
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Multiprocessors
Microprocessors
Resource allocation
Microprocessor chips
Multiprocessing systems
Processor scheduling
Multiprocessadors
Microprocessadors
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors
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Sumario:Chip-MultiProcessors (CMP) introduce complexities when accounting CPU utilization to processes because the progress done by a process during an interval of time highly depends on the activity of the other processes it is co-scheduled with. We propose a new hardware accounting mechanism to improve the accuracy when measuring the CPU utilization in CMPs and compare it with the previous accounting mechanisms. Our results show that currently known mechanisms could lead to a 12% average error when it comes to CPU utilization accounting. Our proposal reduces this error to less than 1% in a modeled 4-core processor system.