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Publication
OOPSLA 2009
Conference paper
How lock contention affects energy use in a CMP server
Abstract
A server application running on a chip multiprocessor with many hardware threads often requires extra processor speed (and energy) because of lock contention. We show that boosting the processor speed for frequently contended critical sections in a Java VM can save more energy on a DVFS-enabled server.