BarTLB: Barren page resistant TLB for managed runtime languages
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Abstract
This work observes that many translation lookaside buffer (TLB) misses in Java workloads originate from barren pages. That is, pages that contain mostly dead objects sprinkled with only a few live objects. Barren pages experience only a few accesses every time they are touched thrashing a conventional TLB. This work characterizes the barren page phenomenon and proposes (1) a low-cost barren page identification technique, and (2) two simple, low-cost techniques for improving TLB performance: (a) The Barren Page First (BPF) replacement policy extends an existing TLB replacement policy to prefer barren pages on evictions. (b) Selective In-Cache Translation Caching (SICTC) avoids installing barren pages in the TLB by augmenting one way of a virtually-indexed, physically-tagged L1 data cache with virtual tags. For all workloads considered BPF and SICTC not only prove robust but also improve performance by 1.7% and 5.1% on average and by up to 4.6% and 12.0% respectively.
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