SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2012
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Critical Lock Analysis - Diagnosing Critical Section Bottlenecks in Multithreaded Applications
SESSION: Runtime-Based Analysis and Optimization
EVENT TYPE: Papers
TIME: 3:30PM - 4:00PM
SESSION CHAIR: Siegfried Benkner
AUTHOR(S):Guancheng Chen, Per Stenstrom
ROOM:355-D
ABSTRACT:
Critical sections are well known potential performance bottlenecks in multithreaded applications and identifying the ones that inhibit scalability are important for performance optimizations. While previous approaches use idle time as a key measure, we show such a measure is not reliable. The reason is that idleness does not necessarily mean the critical section is on the critical path.
We introduce critical lock analysis, a new method for diagnosing critical section bottlenecks in multithreaded applications. Our method firstly identifies the critical sections appearing on the critical path, and then quantifies the impact of such critical sections on the overall performance by using quantitative performance metrics. Case studies show that our method can successfully identify critical sections that are most beneficial for improving overall performance as well as quantify their performance impact on the critical path, which results in a more reliable establishment of the inherent critical section bottlenecks than previous approaches.
Chair/Author Details:
Siegfried Benkner (Chair) - University of Vienna
Guancheng Chen - IBM Research - China
Per Stenstrom - Chalmers University of Technology
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Critical Lock Analysis - Diagnosing Critical Section Bottlenecks in Multithreaded Applications
SESSION: Runtime-Based Analysis and Optimization
EVENT TYPE:
TIME: 3:30PM - 4:00PM
SESSION CHAIR: Siegfried Benkner
AUTHOR(S):Guancheng Chen, Per Stenstrom
ROOM:355-D
ABSTRACT:
Critical sections are well known potential performance bottlenecks in multithreaded applications and identifying the ones that inhibit scalability are important for performance optimizations. While previous approaches use idle time as a key measure, we show such a measure is not reliable. The reason is that idleness does not necessarily mean the critical section is on the critical path.
We introduce critical lock analysis, a new method for diagnosing critical section bottlenecks in multithreaded applications. Our method firstly identifies the critical sections appearing on the critical path, and then quantifies the impact of such critical sections on the overall performance by using quantitative performance metrics. Case studies show that our method can successfully identify critical sections that are most beneficial for improving overall performance as well as quantify their performance impact on the critical path, which results in a more reliable establishment of the inherent critical section bottlenecks than previous approaches.
Chair/Author Details:
Siegfried Benkner (Chair) - University of Vienna
Guancheng Chen - IBM Research - China
Per Stenstrom - Chalmers University of Technology
Click here to download .ics calendar file