Recent studies have addressed that the cache be havior is important in the design of main memory index structures. Cache-conscious indices such as the CSB^＋-tree are shown to outperform conventional main memory indic...Recent studies have addressed that the cache be havior is important in the design of main memory index structures. Cache-conscious indices such as the CSB^＋-tree are shown to outperform conventional main memory indices such as the AVL-tree and the T-tree. This paper proposes a cacheconscious version of the T-tree, CST-tree, defined according to the cache-conscious definition. To separate the keys within a node into two parts, the CST-tree can gain higher cache hit ratio.展开更多
The cache-based covert channel is one of the common vulnerabilities exploited in the Spectre attacks.Current mitigation strategies focus on blocking the eviction-based channel by using a random/encrypted mapping funct...The cache-based covert channel is one of the common vulnerabilities exploited in the Spectre attacks.Current mitigation strategies focus on blocking the eviction-based channel by using a random/encrypted mapping function to translate memory address to the cache address,while the updated-based channel is still vulnerable.In addition,some mitigation strategies are also costly as it needs software and hardware modifications.In this paper,our objective is to devise low-cost,comprehensive-protection techniques for mitigating the Spectre attacks.We proposed a novel cache structure,named EBCache,which focuses on the RISC-V processor and applies the address encryption and blacklist to resist the Spectre attacks.The addresses encryption mechanism increases the difficulty of pruning a minimal eviction set.The blacklist mechanism makes the updated cache lines loaded by the malicious updates invisible.Our experiments demonstrated that the EBCache can prevent malicious modifications.The EBCache,however,reduces the processor’s performance by about 23%but involves only a low-cost modification in the hardware.展开更多
As the speed gap between main memory and modern processors continues to widen, the cache behavior becomes more important for main memory database systems （MMDBs）. Indexing technique is a key component of MMDBs. Unfo...As the speed gap between main memory and modern processors continues to widen, the cache behavior becomes more important for main memory database systems （MMDBs）. Indexing technique is a key component of MMDBs. Unfortunately, the predominant indexes -B^＋-trees and T-trees -- have been shown to utilize cache poorly, which triggers the development of many cache-conscious indexes, such as CSB^＋-trees and pB^＋-trees. Most of these cache-conscious indexes are variants of conventional B^＋-trees, and have better cache performance than B^＋-trees. In this paper, we develop a novel J^＋-tree index, inspired by the Judy structure which is an associative array data structure, and propose a more cacheoptimized index -- Prefetching J^＋-tree （pJ^＋-tree）, which applies prefetching to J^＋-tree to accelerate range scan operations. The J^＋-tree stores all the keys in its leaf nodes and keeps the reference values of leaf nodes in a Judy structure, which makes J^＋-tree not only hold the advantages of Judy （such as fast single value search） but also outperform it in other aspects. For example, J^＋-trees can achieve better performance on range queries than Judy. The pJ^＋-tree index exploits prefetching techniques to further improve the cache behavior of J^＋-trees and yields a speedup of 2.0 on range scans. Compared with B^＋-trees, CSB^＋-trees, pB^＋-trees and T-trees, our extensive experimental Study shows that pJ^＋-trees can provide better performance on both time （search, scan, update） and space aspects.展开更多
基金Supported bythe National High Technology of 863Project (2002AA1Z2308 ,2002AA118030)
文摘Recent studies have addressed that the cache be havior is important in the design of main memory index structures. Cache-conscious indices such as the CSB^＋-tree are shown to outperform conventional main memory indices such as the AVL-tree and the T-tree. This paper proposes a cacheconscious version of the T-tree, CST-tree, defined according to the cache-conscious definition. To separate the keys within a node into two parts, the CST-tree can gain higher cache hit ratio.
基金This work was supported in part by the China Ministry of Science and Technology under Grant 2015GA600002。
文摘The cache-based covert channel is one of the common vulnerabilities exploited in the Spectre attacks.Current mitigation strategies focus on blocking the eviction-based channel by using a random/encrypted mapping function to translate memory address to the cache address,while the updated-based channel is still vulnerable.In addition,some mitigation strategies are also costly as it needs software and hardware modifications.In this paper,our objective is to devise low-cost,comprehensive-protection techniques for mitigating the Spectre attacks.We proposed a novel cache structure,named EBCache,which focuses on the RISC-V processor and applies the address encryption and blacklist to resist the Spectre attacks.The addresses encryption mechanism increases the difficulty of pruning a minimal eviction set.The blacklist mechanism makes the updated cache lines loaded by the malicious updates invisible.Our experiments demonstrated that the EBCache can prevent malicious modifications.The EBCache,however,reduces the processor’s performance by about 23%but involves only a low-cost modification in the hardware.
基金supported by a grant from HP Lab China,and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.60496325 and 60573092
文摘As the speed gap between main memory and modern processors continues to widen, the cache behavior becomes more important for main memory database systems （MMDBs）. Indexing technique is a key component of MMDBs. Unfortunately, the predominant indexes -B^＋-trees and T-trees -- have been shown to utilize cache poorly, which triggers the development of many cache-conscious indexes, such as CSB^＋-trees and pB^＋-trees. Most of these cache-conscious indexes are variants of conventional B^＋-trees, and have better cache performance than B^＋-trees. In this paper, we develop a novel J^＋-tree index, inspired by the Judy structure which is an associative array data structure, and propose a more cacheoptimized index -- Prefetching J^＋-tree （pJ^＋-tree）, which applies prefetching to J^＋-tree to accelerate range scan operations. The J^＋-tree stores all the keys in its leaf nodes and keeps the reference values of leaf nodes in a Judy structure, which makes J^＋-tree not only hold the advantages of Judy （such as fast single value search） but also outperform it in other aspects. For example, J^＋-trees can achieve better performance on range queries than Judy. The pJ^＋-tree index exploits prefetching techniques to further improve the cache behavior of J^＋-trees and yields a speedup of 2.0 on range scans. Compared with B^＋-trees, CSB^＋-trees, pB^＋-trees and T-trees, our extensive experimental Study shows that pJ^＋-trees can provide better performance on both time （search, scan, update） and space aspects.
