HIOS: A host interface I/O scheduler for Solid State Disks

Myoungsoo Jung, Wonil Choi, Shekhar Srikantaiah, Joonhyuk Yoo, Mahmut T. Kandemir

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Abstract

Garbage collection (GC) and resource contention on I/O buses (channels) are among the critical bottlenecks in Solid State Disks (SSDs) that cannot be easily hidden. Most existing I/O scheduling algorithms in the host interface logic (HIL) of state-of-the-art SSDs are oblivious to such low-level performance bottlenecks in SSDs. As a result, SSDs may violate quality of service (QoS) requirements by not being able to meet the deadlines of I/O requests. In this paper, we propose a novel host interface I/O scheduler that is both GC-aware and QoS-aware. The proposed scheduler redistributes the GC overheads across non-critical I/O requests and reduces channel resource contention. Our experiments with workloads from various application domains reveal that the proposed scheduler reduces the standard deviation for latency over state-of-the-art I/O schedulers used in the HIL by 52.5%, and the worst-case latency by 86.6%. In addition, for I/O requests with sizes smaller than a superpage, our proposed scheduler avoids channel resource conflicts and reduces latency by 29.2% compared to the state-of-the-art.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication41st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ISCA 2014 - Conference Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages289-300
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9781479943968
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event2014 ACM/IEEE 41st International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ISCA 2014 - Minneapolis, MN, United States
Duration: 2014 Jun 142014 Jun 18

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Symposium on Computer Architecture
ISSN (Print)1063-6897

Other

Other2014 ACM/IEEE 41st International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ISCA 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMinneapolis, MN
Period14/6/1414/6/18

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Hardware and Architecture

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