Mix and Match: Reorganizing Tasks for Enhancing Data Locality

Xulong Tang, Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Mustafa Karakoy

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Abstract

Application programs that exhibit strong locality of reference lead to minimized cache misses and better performance in different architectures. In this paper, we target task-based programs, and propose a novel compiler-based approach that consists of four complementary steps. First, we partition the original tasks in the target application into sub-tasks and build a data reuse graph at a sub-task granularity. Second, based on the intensity of temporal and spatial data reuses among sub-tasks, we generate new tasks where each such (new) task includes a set of sub-tasks that exhibit high data reuse among them. Third, we assign the newly-generated tasks to cores in an architecture-aware fashion with the knowledge of data location. Finally, we re-schedule the execution order of sub-tasks within new tasks such that sub-tasks that belong to different tasks but share data among them are executed in close proximity in time. The experiments show that, when targeting a state of the art manycore system, our compiler-based approach improves the performance of 10 multithreaded programs by 23.4% on average.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSIGMETRICS 2021 - Abstract Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGMETRICS / International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages47-48
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450380720
DOIs
StatePublished - May 31 2021
Event2021 ACM SIGMETRICS / International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 2021 - Virtual. Online, China
Duration: Jun 14 2021Jun 18 2021

Publication series

NameSIGMETRICS 2021 - Abstract Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGMETRICS / International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Conference

Conference2021 ACM SIGMETRICS / International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityVirtual. Online
Period6/14/216/18/21

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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