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USENIX
1994
13 years 5 months ago
Application-Controlled File Caching Policies
We considerhowtoimprovetheperformanceof le cachingbyallowinguser-levelcontrolover lecache replacementdecisions. Weusetwo-levelcachemanagement: the kernel allocates physical pages ...
Pei Cao, Edward W. Felten, Kai Li
HIPEAC
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
ACM: An Efficient Approach for Managing Shared Caches in Chip Multiprocessors
This paper proposes and studies a hardware-based adaptive controlled migration strategy for managing distributed L2 caches in chip multiprocessors. Building on an area-efficient sh...
Mohammad Hammoud, Sangyeun Cho, Rami G. Melhem
HIPEAC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Revisiting Cache Block Superloading
Abstract. Technological advances and increasingly complex and dynamic application behavior argue for revisiting mechanisms that adapt logical cache block size to application charac...
Matthew A. Watkins, Sally A. McKee, Lambert Schael...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
191views Hardware» more  MICRO 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Pseudo-LIFO: the foundation of a new family of replacement policies for last-level caches
Cache blocks often exhibit a small number of uses during their life time in the last-level cache. Past research has exploited this property in two different ways. First, replacem...
Mainak Chaudhuri
ICCD
2008
IEEE
117views Hardware» more  ICCD 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Two dimensional highly associative level-two cache design
High associativity is important for level-two cache designs [9]. Implementing CAM-based Highly Associative Caches (CAM-HAC), however, is both costly in hardware and exhibits poor s...
Chuanjun Zhang, Bing Xue