Principles of Computer System Design

Chapter 6

Performance

Chapter Contents

Overview

6.1 Designing for Performance

6.1.1 Performance Metrics

6.1.2 A Systems Approach to Designing for Performance

6.1.3 Reducing Latency by Exploiting Workload Properties

6.1.4 Reducing Latency using Concurrency

6.1.5 Improving Throughput: Concurrency

6.1.6 Queuing and Overload

6.1.7 Fighting Bottlenecks

6.1.8 An Example: The I/O Bottleneck

6.2 Multilevel Memories

6.2.1 Memory Characterization

6.2.2 Multilevel Memory Management using Virtual Memory

6.2.3 Adding Multilevel Memory Management to a Virtual Memory

6.2.4 Analyzing Multilevel Memory Systems

6.2.5 Locality of Reference and Working Sets

6.2.6 Multilevel Memory Management Policies

6.2.7 Comparative Analysis of Different Policies

6.2.8 Other ...