Abstract
Providing low-latency and high-throughput is an important design feature of an I/O scheduler. Especially, when multiple applications share and compete for a storage resource, the operating system is required to schedule the IO requests for the maximum throughput. Recently, the flash-based storage, solid-state drive (SSD) has been popularly used in various computing systems and traditional scheduling algorithms have been researched and tuned for the emerging flash-based storages. However, the SSDs suffer from the contention problem caused by multiple I/O requests and experience significant performance degradation. This is mainly due to the concurrently accesses to a finite set of flash memory chips. In this paper we propose Dynamic Load Balanced Queuing (DLBQ) that reorders the I/O requests and evenly distributes the accesses on flash memory chips to avoid contention. For that purpose, we have introduced a virtual time method which chases the run-time status of the SSD. We have evaluated the throughput and latency of DLBQ versus the four I/O schedulers with micro benchmarks and server benchmarks. The experimental results show that the throughput of DLBQ is improved by 11 percent on a 128 GB SSD and 15 percent on a 256 GB SSD while ensuring a bounded latency.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 7776864 |
Pages (from-to) | 1034-1047 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Computers |
Volume | 66 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 Jun 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No.R7117-16-0233, Development of Application Program Optimization Tools for High Performance Computing Systems) and the Memory Division of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. This paper is an extension of our previous study, “Contention-Free Fair Queuing for High-Speed with RAID-0 Architecture,” which appeared in the IEEE 17th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications. Won Woo Ro is the corresponding author.
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Software
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computational Theory and Mathematics