FLORIA: A Fast and Featherlight Approach for Predicting Cache Performance
Jun Xiao, Yaocheng Xiang, Xiaolin Wang, Yingwei Luo, Andy D. Pimentel, Zhenlin Wang · 2023
The cache Miss Ratio Curve (MRC) serves a variety of purposes such as cache partitioning, application profiling and code tuning. In this work, we propose a new metric, called cache miss distribution, that describes cache miss behavior over cache sets, for predicting cache MRCs. Based on this metric, we present FLORIA, a software-based, online approach that approximates cache MRCs on commodity systems. By polluting a tunable number of cache lines in some selected cache sets using our designed microbenchmark, the cache miss distribution for the target workload is obtained via hardware performance counters with the support of precise event based sampling (PEBS). A model is developed to predict the MRC of the target workload based on its cache miss distribution.