Report Number: CSL-TR-88-347
Institution: Stanford University, Computer Systems Laboratory
Title: Trace compaction using cache filtering with blocking
Author: Agarwal, Anant
Date: December 1987
Abstract: Trace-driven simulation is a popular method of estimating the performance of cache memories, translation lookaside buffers, and paging schemes. Because the cost of trace-driven simulation is directly proportional to trace length, reducing the number of references in the trace significantly impacts simulation time. This paper concentrates on trace-driven simulation for cache analysis. A technique called cache filtering with blocking is presented that compresses traces by exploiting both the temporal and spatial locality in the trace. Experimental results show that this scheme can reduce trace length by nearly two orders of magnitude while introducing less than 15% error in cache miss rate estimates.
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