Binding time in distributed shared memories for generic patterns of memory references

Performance of three binding schemes for memory local to a node is evaluated. Since a large number of cache misses can occur in a large (relative to the cache size) working set, binding at a page fault time alone cannot efficiently utilize locality of reference at the local memory. In a small working set, the address bound to the local memory at a node miss time is not effective due to low cache miss rates. Our simulation shows that binding at a cache miss time achieves up to 3.1 times and 2.4 times performance of the schemes of binding at a page fault time and at a node miss time respectively.