ROCO: Using a Solid State Drive Cache to Improve the Performance of a Host-Aware Shingled Magnetic Recording Drive

Shingled magnetic recording (SMR) can effectively increase the capacity of hard disk drives (HDDs). Hostaware SMR (HA-SMR) is expected to be more popular than other SMR models because of its backward compatibility and new SMR-specific APIs. However, an HA-SMR drive often suffers performance degradat...

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Published in:Journal of computer science and technology 2019, Vol.34 (1), p.61-76
Main Authors: Liu, Wen-Guo, Zeng, Ling-Fang, Feng, Dan, Kent, Kenneth B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Analysis
Artificial Intelligence
Cold
Computer Science
Data storage
Data Structures and Information Theory
Disk drives
Hard disks
Hybrid systems
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Magnetic recorders and recording
Magnetic recording
Magnetic tape
Performance degradation
Performance enhancement
Regular Paper
Software Engineering
Solid state devices
Theory of Computation
Workloads
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Summary:Shingled magnetic recording (SMR) can effectively increase the capacity of hard disk drives (HDDs). Hostaware SMR (HA-SMR) is expected to be more popular than other SMR models because of its backward compatibility and new SMR-specific APIs. However, an HA-SMR drive often suffers performance degradation under write-intensive workloads because of frequent non-sequential writes buffered in the disk cache. The non-sequential writes mainly come from update writes, small random writes and out-of-order writes. In this paper, we propose a hybrid storage system called ROCO which aims to use a solid state drive (SSD) cache to improve the performance of an HA-SMR drive. ROCO reorders out-of-order writes belonging to the same zone and uses the SSD cache to absorb update writes and small random writes. We also design a data replacement algorithm called CREA for the SSD cache. CREA first conducts zone-oriented hot/cold data identification to identify cold-cached zones and hot-cached zones, and then evicts data blocks belonging to colder zones with higher priorities that can be sequentially written or written through host-side read-modify-write operations. It gives the lowest priority to data blocks belonging to the hottest-cached zone that have to be non-sequentially written. Experimental results show that ROCO can effectively reduce non-sequential writes to the HA-SMR drive and improve the performance of the HA-SMR drive.
ISSN:1000-9000
1860-4749
DOI:10.1007/s11390-019-1899-7