3 papers
cs.AR2026
Themis: Software-Defined Hardware Prefetching
Keisuke Kamahori, Neil Adit, Kan Zhu +13
Data cache misses represent a significant portion of stall cycles in datacenter workloads. Hardware prefetchers that reduce such stalls by fetching data ahead of time have become i…
cs.OS2026
Affinity Tailor: Dynamic Locality-Aware Scheduling at Scale
Jin Xin Ng, Ori Livneh, Richard O'Grady +7
Modern large multicore systems often run multiple workloads that share CPUs under schedulers such as Linux CFS. To keep CPUs busy, these schedulers load-balance runnable work, caus…
cs.SE2025
Instruction Set Migration at Warehouse Scale
Eric Christopher, Kevin Crossan, Wolff Dobson +7
Migrating codebases from one instruction set architecture (ISA) to another is a major engineering challenge. A recent example is the adoption of Arm (in addition to x86) across the…