Characterizing and Optimizing the Performance of Multithreaded Programs Under Interference
Yong Bo Zhao, Jia Rao, Qing Yi · 2016
As virtualization becomes ubiquitous in datacenters, there is a growing interest in characterizing application performance in multi-tenant environments to improve datacenter resource management. The performance of parallel programs is notoriously difficult to reason about in virtualized environments. Although performance degradations caused by virtualization and interferences have been extensively studied, there still lacks a comprehensive understanding why parallel programs have unpredictable slowdowns when co-located with different types of workloads.