The authors introduce a set of new Compression-Aware Management Policies (CAMP) for on-chip caches that employ data compression. Their management policies are based on two key ideas. First, they show that it is possible to build a more efficient management policy for compressed caches if the compressed block size is directly used in calculating the ...

Recent windowing systems allow graphics applications to directly access the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for fast rendering. However, application tasks that render frames on the GPU contend heavily with the windowing server that also accesses the GPU to blit the rendered frames to the screen. This resource-sharing nature of direct rendering introduces core challenges of ...