Palirria : accurate on-line parallelism estimation for adaptive work-stealing

• Summary We present Palirria, a self-adapting work-stealing scheduling method for nested fork/join parallelism that can be used to estimate the number of utilizable workers and self-adapt accordingly. The estimation mechanism is optimized for accuracy, minimizing the requested resources without degrading performance. We implemented Palirria for both the Linux and Barrelfish operating systems and evaluated it on two platforms: a 48-core Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) multiprocessor and a simulated 32-core system. Compared with state-of-the-art, we observed higher accuracy in estimating resource requirements. This leads to improved resource utilization and performance on par or better to executing with fixed resource allotments.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Datorsystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Computer Systems (hsv//eng)

Keyword

adaptive

load balancing

multicore

parallel

resource management

runtime

scheduler

task

work-stealing

workload

Computer operating systems

Resource allocation

Scheduling

Multi core

Runtimes

Network management

Computer Science

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ref (subject category)

art (subject category)