Reducing system overheads in home-based software DSMs

被引:12
作者
Hu, WW [1 ]
Shi, WS [1 ]
Tang, ZM [1 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Comp Technol Inst, Beijing 100864, Peoples R China
来源
IPPS/SPDP 1999: 13TH INTERNATIONAL PARALLEL PROCESSING SYMPOSIUM & 10TH SYMPOSIUM ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING, PROCEEDINGS | 1999年
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10.1109/IPPS.1999.760454
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
Software DSM systems stiffer from the high communication and coherence-induced overheads that limit performance. This paper introduces our efforts in reducing system overheads of a home-bused software DSM called JIAJIA. Three measures, including eliminating false sharing through avoiding unnecessarily invalidating cached pages, reducing virtual memory page faults with a new write detection scheme, and propagating barrier message in a hierarchical way, are taken to reduce the system overhead of JIAJIA. Evaluation with some well-known DSM benchmarks reveals that, though varying with memory reference patterns of different applications, these measures can reduce system overhead of JIAJIA effectively.
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页码:167 / 173
页数:7
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