NDLI: A study of Java virtual machine scalability issues on SMP systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Zhongbo Cao Wei Huang Chang, J.M.
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, USA (Zhongbo Cao; Wei Huang; Chang, J.M.)
Abstract	This paper studies the scalability issues of Java virtual machine (JVM) on symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) systems. Using a cycle-accurate simulator, we evaluate the performance scaling of multithreaded Java benchmarks with the number of processors and application threads. By correlating low-level hardware performance data to two high-level software constructs: thread types and memory regions, we present in detail the performance analysis and study the potential performance impacts of memory system latencies and resource contentions on scalability. Several key findings are revealed through this paper. First, among the memory access latency components, the primary portion of memory stalls are produced by L2 cache misses and cache-to-cache transfers. Second, among the regions of memory, Java heap space produces most memory stalls. Additionally, a large majority of memory stalls occur in application threads, as opposed to other JVM threads. Furthermore, we find that increasing the number of processors or application threads, independently of each other, leads to increases in L2 cache miss ratio and cache-to-cache transfer ratio. This problem can be alleviated by using a thread-local heap or allocation buffer which can improve L2 cache performance. For certain benchmarks such as Raytracer, their cache-to-cache transfers, mainly dominated by false sharing, can be significantly reduced. Our experiments also show that a thread-local allocation buffer with a size between 16KB and 256KB often leads to optimal performance.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Comm. on Comput. Archit
Starting Page	119
Ending Page	128
File Size	1561202
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780394615
DOI	10.1109/IISWC.2005.1526008
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-10-06
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Java Virtual machining Scalability Yarn Delay Operating systems Performance analysis Kernel Processor scheduling Computational modeling
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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