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Measurement and control of linux operating system noise on the godson-3A shared-memory multicore platform

  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Operating system (OS) noise refers to the interference experienced by an application due to activities inside an operating system. OS noise can significantly hurt the performance of applications, especially parallel applications. We implemented a tool, noise test, to study the characteristics of OS noise on the Godson-3A shared-memory multicore platform running Linux. We found that OS noise was balanced among cores under uniform memory access (UMA) but not under non-uniform memory access (NUMA). We then implemented another tool, quietcpu, to control OS noise. Tests showed the tool could be used to effectively reduce the maximum noise durations by around 50% and the average noise duration by around 5% on our experiment platform.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2013 and 2013 IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC 2013
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages474-481
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9780769550886
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event15th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2013 and 11th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC 2013 - Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China
Duration: 13 Nov 201315 Nov 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2013 and 2013 IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC 2013

Conference

Conference15th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2013 and 11th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityZhangjiajie, Hunan
Period13/11/1315/11/13

Keywords

  • Godson-3A
  • Linux
  • NUMA
  • Operating system
  • UMA
  • noise

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