Robust partial-load experiments with Showstopper

Andrej Podzimek

doi:10.1016/j.future.2016.04.020

Robust partial-load experiments with Showstopper

2016-11-01

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DOI：10.1016/j.future.2016.04.020

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Concurrent execution of multiple applications leads to varying partial utilization of shared resources. Understanding system behavior in these conditions is essential for making concurrent execution efficient. Unfortunately, anticipating behavior of shared resources at partial utilization in complex systems is difficult, realistic experiments that reproduce and examine such behavior are therefore needed. To facilitate experiments at partial utilization, we present a tool that accurately controls the processor utilization of arbitrary concurrent workloads, either establishing constant partial load or replaying a variable load trace. We validate the ability of the tool to enforce the configured partial utilization on multiple platforms, and use the tool to collect novel information on system behavior at partial utilization levels. In detail, our experiments show how to examine the complex relationship between utilization and throughput, useful for tasks such as performance debugging or system dimensioning, and we show this relationship for the DaCapo benchmarks. Further, we show that CPU pinning (a technique used to improve workload isolation) can benefit from dynamic response to system utilization, improving system efficiency with partial utilization. Finally, we show that the overhead of virtualization also changes with partial utilization and CPU allocation. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Partial load

Resource sharing

Performance evaluation

Resource isolation

Load control

Reproducible load

Robust partial-load experiments with Showstopper

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