Conference proceeding
Towards Cross-Framework Workload Analysis via Flexible Event-Driven Interfaces
2018 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE (ISPASS), pp 169-178
01 Jan 2018
Abstract
Hardware/software co-design and software profiling rest on the ability to perform a range of workload analyses. State-of-the-art tools and methods used in such analyses utilize either custom solutions or complex frameworks. There are two problems with this approach: 1) duplicated development work when moving to new and unsupported frameworks or platforms, and 2) the additional burden of in-depth knowledge required to develop the analysis tools. This work presents a methodology to solve these inefficiencies by decoupling workload analysis from the underlying techniques used to observe the workload. The interface is designed to be cross-platform and presents workloads as a set of configurable events with scalable levels-of-detail. An implementation of the methodology, PRISM, is presented which leverages two popular dynamic binary instrumentation tools, Valgrind and DynamoRIO, and additionally Intel PT via Linux perf. The goals of the methodology are three-fold: modularity, flexibility, and productivity. Three analyses are conducted using PRISM to demonstrate these properties: 1) discrepancies are assessed between workloads generated with Valgrind, DynamoRIO, and perf, 2) scalability of a complex Valgrind trace generation tool is improved, and 3) prototyping of a new dynamic loop detection and data-dependence tool is demonstrated. The average overhead of PRISM compared to in-framework analysis is 33% in the worse case and under 1% during typical analysis.
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- Title
- Towards Cross-Framework Workload Analysis via Flexible Event-Driven Interfaces
- Creators
- Michael Lui - Drexel UniversityKarthik Sangaiah - Drexel UniversityMark Hempstead - Tufts UniversityBaris Taskin - Drexel UniversityIEEE
- Publication Details
- 2018 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE (ISPASS), pp 169-178
- Conference
- 2018 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE (ISPASS)
- Series
- IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software-ISPASS
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Number of pages
- 10
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000545984300022
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85048383408
- Other Identifier
- 991019168392504721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
- Computer Science, Software Engineering