Reducing performance non-determinism via cache-aware page allocation strategies
Michal Hocko, Tomáš Kalibera · 2010
Performance non-determinism in computer systems complicates evaluation, use, and even development of these systems. In performance evaluation via benchmarking and simulation, non-determinism requires long executions and more complex experiment design. Real-time systems are hard to dimension and tune with non-determinism. The slower benchmarking also slows down system development, as it takes developers longer to see performance implications of their modifications.