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Subutai

其他書名	Distributed Synchronization Primitives for Legacy and Novel Parallel Applications
出版	2019
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Wp4d0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Parallel applications are essential for efficiently using the computational power of a MultiProcessor System-on-Chip (MPSoC). Unfortunately, these applications do not scale effortlessly with the number of cores because of synchronization operations that take away valuable computational time and restrict the parallelization gains. The existing solutions either restrict the application to a subset of synchronization primitives, require refactoring the source code of it, or both. We introduce Subutai, a hardware/software architecture designed to distribute the synchronization mechanisms over the Network-on-Chip. Subutai is comprised of novel hardware specialized in accelerating synchronization operations, a small private memory for recording events, an operating system driver, and a user space custom library that supports legacy and novel parallel applications. We target the POSIX Threads (PThreads) library as it is widely used as a synchronization library, and internally by other libraries such as OpenMP and Threading Building Blocks. We also provide extensions to Subutai intended to further accelerate parallel applications in two scenarios: (i) multiple applications running in a highly-contended scheduling scenario; (ii) remove the access serialization to condition variables in PThreads. Experimental results with four applications from the PARSEC benchmark running on a 64-core MPSoC show an average application speedup of 1.57× compared with the legacy software solutions. The same applications are further sped up to 5% using our proposed Critical Section-aware scheduling policy compared to a baseline Round-Robin scheduler without any changes in the application source code.