Web Browser Workload Characterization for Power Management on HMP Platforms
Venue
Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS '12) (2016)
Publication Year
2016
Authors
Benedikt Meurer, Daniel Clifford, Hannes Payer, Nadja Peters, Samarjit Chakraborty, Sangyoung Park
BibTeX
Abstract
The volume of mobile web browsing traffic has significantly increased as well as
the complexity of the mobile websites mandating high-performance JavaScript engines
such as Google’s V8 to be used on mobile devices. Although there has been a
significant improvement in performance of JavaScript engine on mobile phones in
recent years, the power consumption re- duction has not been addressed much. This
paper presents a case study for power management of JavaScript engine V8 from
Google in web browsers on a heterogeneous multi- processing (HMP) platform. We
analyze the detailed traces of the thread workload generated by the web browser and
JavaScript engine, and discuss the power saving potentials in relation to power
management policies on Android. We believe that this work will lead to development
of practi- cal power management techniques considering thread allo- cation, dynamic
voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) and power-gating.
