White-Box Analysis over Machine Learning: Modeling Performance of Configurable SystemsTechnical Track
Sat 29 May 2021 03:25 - 03:45 at Blended Sessions Room 2 - 4.3.2. Performance Modeling of Highly Configurable Software Systems
Performance-influence models can help stakeholders understand how and where configuration options and their interactions influence the performance of a system. With this understanding, stakeholders can debug performance behavior and make deliberate configuration decisions. Current black-box techniques to build such models combine various sampling and learning strategies, resulting in tradeoffs between measurement effort, accuracy, and interpretability. We present Comprex, a white-box approach to build performance-influence models for configurable systems, combining insights of local measurements, dynamic taint analysis to track options in the implementation, compositionality, and compression of the configuration space, without relying on machine learning to extrapolate incomplete samples. Our evaluation on 4 widely-used, open-source projects demonstrates that Comprex builds similarly accurate performance-influence models to the most accurate and expensive black-box approach, but at a reduced cost and with additional benefits from interpretable and local models.
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03:05 - 04:05 | 4.3.2. Performance Modeling of Highly Configurable Software SystemsTechnical Track / Journal-First Papers at Blended Sessions Room 2 | ||
03:05 20mPaper | White-Box Performance-Influence Models: A Profiling and Learning ApproachTechnical Track Technical Track Pre-print Media Attached | ||
03:25 20mPaper | White-Box Analysis over Machine Learning: Modeling Performance of Configurable SystemsTechnical Track Technical Track Miguel Velez Carnegie Mellon University, Pooyan Jamshidi University of South Carolina, Norbert Siegmund Leipzig University, Sven Apel Saarland University, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
03:45 20mPaper | ConEx: Efficient Exploration of Big-Data System Configurations for Better PerformanceJournal-First Journal-First Papers Rahul Krishna Columbia University, USA, Chong Tang Microsoft, Kevin Sullivan University of Virginia, Baishakhi Ray Columbia University, USA Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached |