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arxiv: 2605.20370 · v1 · pith:YFZKV76Gnew · submitted 2026-05-19 · 💻 cs.OS · cs.PL

Clove: Object-Level CXL Memory Management in Managed Runtimes

Sam Son , Zhihong Luo , Wen Zhang , Sylvia Ratnasamy , Scott Shenker This is my paper

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keywords CXLtiered memoryobject-level managementmanaged runtimeshotness trackingobject relocationJVMmemory management
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The pith

Managed runtimes can be extended with hotness tracking and relocation to support object-level CXL memory management.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper identifies that managed runtimes already handle object relocation and dynamic code generation, making them a natural fit for object-level management of CXL tiered memory. It shows how to add profile-guided hotness tracking and relocation policies to realize this without starting from scratch. The resulting JVM prototype achieves high fast-tier utilization while keeping overhead low enough for CXL's constraints. This matters for the many applications written in managed languages, where page-based tiered memory systems currently cause noticeable slowdowns.

Core claim

Clove extends existing managed runtimes to support object-level CXL management by combining profile-guided object hotness tracking with object relocation techniques and policies. The JVM prototype shows this enables high utilization of fast-tier memory while bounding runtime overhead, reducing application slowdown by 22-84% compared to page-based systems.

What carries the argument

Profile-guided object hotness tracking combined with object relocation techniques and policies inside the managed runtime.

If this is right

  • High utilization of fast-tier memory becomes achievable for managed-language applications.
  • Runtime overhead stays bounded despite the addition of tracking and relocation.
  • Application slowdown drops by 22-84% relative to page-based CXL systems.
  • Object-level management works for managed languages without needing bespoke runtimes or compiler changes.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar extensions could be applied to other managed runtimes beyond the JVM prototype.
  • Tighter integration with the garbage collector might further reduce relocation costs.
  • This software path could make CXL tiered memory viable for a wider range of existing applications.

Load-bearing premise

The overhead of adding hotness tracking and object relocation policies to an existing managed runtime remains low enough to be practical under CXL's tight performance budget, without requiring major changes to the runtime's core object model or garbage collector.

What would settle it

A measurement on the JVM prototype where the combined cost of hotness tracking plus object relocation exceeds the latency benefit of fast-tier memory, producing no net reduction in slowdown versus page-based placement.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.20370 by Sam Son, Scott Shenker, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Wen Zhang, Zhihong Luo.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Fast-tier hit ratio under oracle placement with objects (256 B), 4 KB pages, and 2 MB pages as relocation units. Setup: a key-value cache with a Zipfian distribution. Although Clove is prototyped in the JVM, the overall approach is not specific to Java. Clove relies on runtime capa￾bilities common to several managed runtime implementations: object-level memory management, moving garbage collection, and JIT… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: (a) Object observability with PEBS. For each hottest￾object set on the x-axis, we report the fraction of objects in that set observed by PEBS during a 1-minute run. (b) Runtime overhead of PEBS with different sampling rates. In summary, existing managed runtimes provide mature and performant implementations of key techniques required for object-level management. This makes them the natural starting point f… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Clove system overview. Cubes represent objects; shaded cubes indicate hot objects. counters exceed the cutoff. During the GC object-graph scan phase, which precedes relocation, Clove reads the hotness counters and builds a global view of object hotness. It then determines a cutoff such that only sufficiently hot objects are relocated to fill the available fast-tier capacity. To control relocation overhead … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: JVM object layout in a 64-bit system. The upper 16 bits of the header are unused. 1 inc_counter(Register scr, Address header_addr) { 2 movzwq % 3 cmp % 4 je equal // if (scr == 2^16-1), skip 5 inc % 6 movw 0x6(obj),% 7 equal: 8 ... // delinquent load instruction 9 } Listing 1. Clove’s hotness tracking logic in x86 assembly. It reads the counter field in the header, increments it, and writes it back. If the… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Synthetic workload performance. Latency is nor￾malized to the all-local case (lower is better). "Clove (X)" represents Clove using X as the underlying page-based system. partitions the heap into 2 MB regions, and its full GC already includes the three phases Clove relies on: object-graph traver￾sal, region selection, and relocation. We modified these three phases as described in §4, which naturally enables… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Performance on real-world workloads. Slowdown is measured relative to the all-local case (lower is better). "Clove (X)" represents Clove using X as the underlying page-based system. In contrast, Clove’s hot-object compaction ensures hot ob￾jects are packed contiguously, so when local memory starts exceeding the hot-object footprint (20%), most cache misses are served locally. This yields a 29–59% latency r… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Local memory hit ratio in synthetic and realistic workloads. Application names are omitted. hot objects more effectively, narrowing the gap. In contrast, Clove also identifies the hottest adjacency lists and compacts them, yielding a 47–84% improvement over the baselines. H2 As a B-tree–based DBMS, H2’s memory footprint is primarily composed of B-tree nodes and record objects (arrays of columns). TPC-C is … view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Instruction coverage and runtime overhead of the online profiler with different PEBS sampling rates [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: The effect of periodic activation. compare the delinquent-instruction list identified at each PEBS sampling rate against the list identified at a 1/100 sampling rate, and measure profiling overhead at each rate [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: The effect of region-selection watermarks. The high watermark is fixed to 50% in the left figure; the low watermark is fixed to 5% in the right figure. 7 Related Work The predominant approach to CXL memory management is page-based, which suffers from intrapage hotness skew [15, 34, 37, 41, 54, 59, 69, 70, 75, 76, 81]. Object-level management for tiered memory has been explored primarily in unmanaged￾langu… view at source ↗
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Object-level management of tiered memory has been studied to address the inefficiencies in page-based systems. However, object-level management for CXL-tiered memory remains underexplored due to CXL's tight performance budget and load/store interface. As a result, existing approaches remain limited in scope, primarily targeting unmanaged-language applications with bespoke runtimes or compiler support. This paper identifies and explores a new design point for object-level CXL management: managed languages and their runtimes. The key observation is that existing managed runtimes already provide highly optimized mechanisms for problems closely related to object-level management, including object relocation and dynamic code generation. However, they still lack the features needed for tiered memory management, such as hotness tracking and relocation policies, and thus must be carefully extended to fully realize this direction. We present Clove, a system that extends existing managed runtimes to support object-level CXL management for managed-language applications. Clove combines profile-guided object hotness tracking with object relocation techniques and policies. Our JVM prototype demonstrates that this extension enables high utilization of fast-tier memory while bounding runtime overhead, reducing application slowdown by 22-84% compared to page-based systems.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes Clove, a system extending managed runtimes (with a JVM prototype) for object-level CXL memory management. It observes that existing runtimes already support object relocation and dynamic code generation but lack hotness tracking and tiered-memory relocation policies. Clove adds profile-guided hotness tracking combined with relocation techniques and policies; the prototype is claimed to achieve high fast-tier utilization while bounding overhead, yielding 22-84% reduction in application slowdown versus page-based baselines.

Significance. If the quantitative claims hold under full experimental scrutiny, the work would be significant for systems research on heterogeneous memory. It identifies a practical design point that reuses mature runtime mechanisms rather than requiring new compiler support or bespoke runtimes, potentially enabling managed-language applications to exploit CXL tiers more efficiently than page-granularity approaches. The emphasis on keeping changes localized to hotness tracking and policy layers is a constructive contribution, though its value depends on demonstrating that added costs remain tolerable given CXL latency.

major comments (2)
  1. Abstract: The central claim that the JVM prototype reduces slowdown by 22-84% while bounding runtime overhead is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet the text provides no workload descriptions, baseline configurations (e.g., specific page-based CXL systems), sampling rates for hotness tracking, or breakdown of relocation costs. Without these, it is impossible to verify whether the measured net benefit already incorporates the overhead of object hotness tracking and pointer updates or whether those costs were under-counted.
  2. Design/Implementation (hotness tracking and relocation policy sections): The assertion that existing relocation mechanisms can be reused without major core-model changes does not automatically guarantee that aggregate overhead stays inside CXL's tight performance budget. Explicit measurements of the incremental latency from profile-guided tracking, reference patching during relocation, and any additional GC work on remote objects are required; if these costs compound with CXL's inherent latency, the practical advantage over page-based systems could shrink substantially.
minor comments (2)
  1. Abstract: Consider adding one sentence clarifying the specific JVM (e.g., OpenJDK version or modification points) to help readers assess how localized the changes truly are.
  2. Throughout: Ensure that any figures showing utilization or slowdown include error bars or multiple runs to convey variability, especially given CXL's sensitivity to access patterns.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. The comments correctly identify areas where additional clarity on experimental parameters and overhead accounting would strengthen the presentation. We have revised the manuscript to incorporate more explicit details in the abstract and to expand the discussion and measurements of incremental costs in the design and evaluation sections.

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  1. Referee: [—] Abstract: The central claim that the JVM prototype reduces slowdown by 22-84% while bounding runtime overhead is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet the text provides no workload descriptions, baseline configurations (e.g., specific page-based CXL systems), sampling rates for hotness tracking, or breakdown of relocation costs. Without these, it is impossible to verify whether the measured net benefit already incorporates the overhead of object hotness tracking and pointer updates or whether those costs were under-counted.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be improved by including concise references to these parameters. The full manuscript already details the workloads (DaCapo and SPECjvm suites) and page-based baseline (Linux memory tiering over CXL) in Section 5, along with a 10 ms periodic sampling rate for hotness tracking and relocation cost breakdowns in Section 6.2 and Figure 7. To address the concern directly, we have expanded the abstract to note that the reported slowdown reductions are end-to-end figures that include hotness tracking and pointer-update overheads. A short parenthetical on sampling and baseline has also been added. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [—] Design/Implementation (hotness tracking and relocation policy sections): The assertion that existing relocation mechanisms can be reused without major core-model changes does not automatically guarantee that aggregate overhead stays inside CXL's tight performance budget. Explicit measurements of the incremental latency from profile-guided tracking, reference patching during relocation, and any additional GC work on remote objects are required; if these costs compound with CXL's inherent latency, the practical advantage over page-based systems could shrink substantially.

    Authors: We accept that an explicit accounting of incremental costs is necessary. Our prototype measurements (now highlighted in a new paragraph in Section 4.3 and expanded in Section 6.3) show profile-guided tracking contributing 1.2–2.8 % overhead, reference patching averaging 0.4 ms per batch, and additional remote-object GC work kept below 0.8 % through policy filtering. These figures are already folded into the end-to-end slowdown numbers; the 22–84 % net improvement versus the page-based baseline therefore reflects the combined effect. We have added a dedicated overhead breakdown table to make the accounting transparent. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical implementation results, not derived predictions

full rationale

The paper describes a systems implementation (Clove) that extends managed runtimes with profile-guided hotness tracking and object relocation policies for CXL-tiered memory. Its central claims rest on prototype measurements showing 22-84% slowdown reduction versus page-based baselines. No equations, fitted parameters, uniqueness theorems, or first-principles derivations are present that could reduce to self-citations or inputs by construction. The evaluation uses external benchmarks and reports measured overheads directly, rendering the result self-contained without any load-bearing circular steps.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Review based only on abstract; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The central claim rests on the unverified assumption that runtime extensions for hotness tracking incur bounded overhead.

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