Web Browser Workload Characterization for Power Management on HMP Platforms
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.
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.
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