PowerChief

Modern user facing applications consist of multiple processing stages with a number of service instances in each stage. The latency profile of these multi-stage applications is intrinsically variable, making it challenging to provide satisfactory responsiveness. Given a limited power budget, improving the end-to-end latency requires intelligently boosting the bottleneck service across stages using multiple boosting techniques. However, prior work fail to acknowledge the multi-stage nature of user-facing applications and perform poorly in improving responsiveness on power constrained CMP, as they are unable to accurately identify bottleneck service and apply the boosting techniques adaptively.