NDLI: PASS: A Hybrid Storage System for Performance-Synchronization Tradeoffs Using SSDs

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Weijun Xiao Xiaoqiang Lei Ruixuan Li Nohhyun Park Lilja, D.J.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Recent advances in flash memory show great potential to replace traditional hard drives (HDDs) with flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) from personal computing to distributed systems. However, it is still a long way to go before completely using SSDs for enterprise data storage. Considering the cost, performance, and reliability of SSDs, a practical solution is to combine both SSDs and HDDs together. This paper proposes a hybrid storage system named PASS (Performance-dAta Synchronization - hybrid storage System) to tradeoff between I/O performance and data discrepancy between SSDs and HDDs. PASS includes a high-performance SSD and a traditional HDD to store mirrored data for reliability. All of the I/O requests are redirected to the primary SSD first and then the updated data blocks are copied to the backup HDD asynchronously. In order to hide the latency of copying operations, we use an I/O window to coalesce write requests and maintain an ordered I/O queue to shorten the HDD seek and rotation times. Depending on the charateristics of different I/O workloads, we develop an adaptive policy to dynamically balance the foreground I/O processing and background mirroring. We implement a prototype system of PASS by developing a Linux device driver and conduct experiments on the IoMeter, PostMark, and TPCC benchmarks. Our results show that PASS can achieve up to 12 times the performance of a RAID1 storage system for the IoMeter and PostMark workloads while tolerating less than 2% data discrepancy between the primary SSD and the backup HDD. More interestingly, while PASS does not produce any performance benefit for the TPC-C benchmark, it does allow the system to scale to larger sizes than when using an HDD-based RAID system alone.
Starting Page	403
Ending Page	410
File Size	316598
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467316316
DOI	10.1109/ISPA.2012.59
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-07-10
Publisher Place	Spain
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Performance evaluation Data Synchronization Solid State Drive Instruction sets Linux Prototypes Data Management Hybrid Storage Benchmark testing Reliability Kernel
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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