A Survey on Recent Hardware and Software-Level Cache Management Techniques

Multi and many-core processors have emerged as the dominant solution for processing in the whole range of computer system, from small devices to large-scale installations. Chip multi-processors, which are homogeneous, multi and manycore processors, offer an unprecedented amount of on-chip, shared resources and brings a unique set of challenges. Given the importance of the Last-Level Cache management techniques to achieve near-perfect isolation, we survey the state of the art and propose research directions to address the most pressing issues in modern computer systems. To better understand the various research directions in the field, we propose a classification of the presented techniques. Finally, we discuss possible research directions.