On the accuracy of cache sharing models
Vlastimil Babka, Peter Libič, Tomáš Martinec, Petr Tůma · 2012
Memory caches significantly improve the performance of workloads that have temporal and spatial locality by providing faster access to data. Current processor designs have multiple cores sharing a cache. To accurately model a workload performance and to improve system throughput by intelligently scheduling workloads on cores, we need to understand how sharing caches between workloads affects their data accesses.