Section: Software

Cache Control

Participants : Guillaume Huard [correspondant] , Swann Perarnau.

Cache Control is a Linux kernel module enabling user applications to restrict their memory allocations to a subset of the hardware memory cache. This module reserves and exports available physical memory as virtual devices that can be mmap'd to. It gives to calling processes physical memory using only a subset of the cache (similarly to page coloring). It actually creates cache partitions that can be used simultaneously by a process to control how much cache a data structure can use.