Affiliation:
1. VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA
2. The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA
Abstract
This paper describes the results of our measurement-based study, conducted on an Intel Core i7 processor running the SPEC CPU2017 benchmark suites, that evaluates the impact of
dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS)
on
performance (P), energy efficiency (EE)
, and their
product (PxEE)
. The results indicate that the default DVFS-based power management techniques heavily favor performance, resulting in poor energy efficiency. To remedy this problem, we introduce, implement, and evaluate four DVFS-based power management techniques driven by the following metrics derived from the processor's performance monitoring unit: (i) the total pipeline slot stall ratio (FS-PS), (ii) the total cycle stall ratio (FS-TS), (iii) the total memory-related cycle stall ratio (FS-MS), and (iv) the number of last level cache misses per kilo instructions (FS-LLCM). The proposed techniques linearly map these metrics onto the available processor clock frequencies. The experimental evaluation results show that the proposed techniques significantly improve EE and PxEE metrics compared to the existing approaches. Specifically, EE improves from 44% to 92%, and PxEE improves from 31% to 48% when all the benchmarks are considered together. Furthermore, we find that the proposed techniques are particularly effective for a class of memory-intensive benchmarks – they improve EE from 121% to 183% and PxEE from 100% to 141%. Finally, we elucidate the advantages and disadvantages of each of the proposed techniques and offer recommendations on using them.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality,Media Technology,Information Systems,Software,Computer Science (miscellaneous)
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