Paper
Elizabeth S. Sorenson and J. Kelly Flanagan. Evaluating Synthetic Trace Models Using Locality
Surfaces. In Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Annual Workshop on Workload Characterization,
pages 23-33, November 2002.
Abstract
In this paper we analyze several synthetic trace generation models using
locality surfaces. The locality surfaces let us discover what elements of
the real trace were accurately modeled and what features were not. None
of the models examined are very good at retaining the locality of the real
trace. We can see from a few cache simulation results that if the
locality surface does not accurately reflect the locality of the real
workload, the cache performance statistics will not be accurate either.