NDLI: COMeT: Continuous Online Memory Test

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Rahman, M. Childers, B.R. Sangyeun Cho
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Today's computers have gigabytes of main memory due to improved DRAM density. As density increases, smaller bit cells become more susceptible to errors. With an increase in error susceptibility, the need for memory resiliency also increases. Self-testing of memory health can proactively check for errors to improve resiliency. This paper describes a software-only self test to continuously test memory. We present the challenges and design for an approach, called Continuous Online Memory Testing (COMeT), that targets chip multiprocessors. COMeT tests memory health simultaneously with application execution in anticipation of allocation requests. The approach guarantees that memory is tested within a fixed time interval to limit exposure to lurking errors. We developed and evaluated an implementation of COMeT. On the SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks, COMeT has a low 4% average performance overhead. When emulated errors were injected into physical memory, applications executed 1.13x to 4.41x longer with COMeT than without it.
Starting Page	109
Ending Page	118
File Size	245247
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781457720055
e-ISBN	9780769545905
DOI	10.1109/PRDC.2011.22
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-12-12
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Resource management Testing Memory management Random access memory Kernel Linux Instruction sets memory Self testing errors resilience
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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