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Partitioned Tags, Shared Data: Reconciling Strict Cache Isolation with Write-Shared Coherence

Kartik Ramkrishnan, Stephen McCamant, Antonia Zhai, Pen Chung Yew 2026-06-14
Gem5 Microarchitecture Simulation × Cache

SCP solves the problem that write-shared coherence fails under strict cache partitioning, a decade-old barrier to deploying eviction-based side-channel defenses in secure shared-OS settings. The method partitions only the tags while sharing a single data pool, sizes the data pool to prevent capacity-driven cross-partition eviction, and routes writes to the LLC after a leakage threshold to mitigate coherence-based leakage. Experimental evidence from gem5 shows SCP mitigates Prime+Probe, Flush+Reload, and shared-writeable-line attacks to no better than random guessing, with a +2.8% LLC SRAM hardware cost and IPC within 0.3% of DAWG on SPEC CPU2017. This matters because SCP reconciles strict cache isolation with write-shared coherence, enabling secure partitioning without sacrificing performance or coherence correctness.

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Maestro: Workload-Aware Cross-Cluster Scheduling for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Jinghao Wang, Xiao Zhou, Xiaoyang Sun, Yihui Zhang 2026-06-14
Workload Scheduling LLM Agent

Maestro addresses the problem of high resource consumption and scheduling inefficiencies in deploying LLM-based multi-agent systems under strict GPU budgets. The method uses agent semantics to predict output length and memory usage, enabling hierarchical scheduling with dynamic model co-location, latency-aware routing, and workflow-aware prioritization. Experimental evidence shows Maestro reduces KV-reservation HBM by 67.2% and improves high-contention SLO attainment over EDF by 23.6 percentage points. This matters because it enables efficient, scalable deployment of complex multi-agent workflows in resource-constrained cloud environments.

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