Miss Rate Prediction across All Program Inputs
Yutao Zhong, Steven G. Dropsho, and Chen Ding
ABSTRACT
Improving cache performance requires understanding cache behavior.
However, measuring cache performance for one or two data input sets
provides little insight into how cache behavior varies across all
data input sets. This paper uses our recently published locality
analysis to generate a parameterized model of program cache behavior.
Given a cache size and associativity, this model predicts
the miss rate for arbitrary data input set sizes. This model also
identifies critical data input sizes where cache behavior exhibits
marked changes. Experiments show this technique is
within 2% of the hit rate for set associative caches on a set of
integer and floating-point programs.
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