CuttleSys: Data-Driven Resource Management for Interactive Services on Reconfigurable Multicores

Multi-tenancy for latency-critical applications leads to resource interference and unpredictable performance. Core reconfiguration opens up more opportunities for application colocation, as it allows the hardware to adjust to the dynamic performance and power needs of a specific mix of co-scheduled services. However, reconfigurability also introduces challenges, as even for a small number of reconfigurable cores, exploring the design space becomes more time- and resource-demanding.We present CuttleSys, a runtime for reconfigurable multicores that leverages scalable and lightweight data mining to quickly identify suitable core and cache configurations for a set of co-scheduled applications. The runtime combines collaborative filtering to infer the behavior of each job on every core and cache configuration, with Dynamically Dimensioned Search to efficiently explore the configuration space. We evaluate CuttleSys on multicores with tens of reconfigurable cores and show up to 2.46× and 1.55× performance improvements compared to core-level gating and oracle-like asymmetric multicores respectively, under stringent power constraints.