한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터 (Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters)

한국정보과학회 (Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers)
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하이브리드 하드디스크를 위한 효율적인 데이터 블록 교체 및 재배치 기법

An Efficient Data Block Replacement and Rearrangement Technique for Hybrid Hard Disk Drive

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최근 낸드 플래시 메모리가 하드디스크 수준으로 읽기 성능이 향상되고, 전력소비가 훨씬 적음에 따라, 플래시메모리와 하드디스크를 같이 사용하는 하이브리드 하드디스크와 같은 이기종 저장장치들이 출시되고 있다. 하지만 낸드 플래시 메모리의 쓰기 및 삭제 속도가 기존 자기디스크의 쓰기 성능에 비해 매우 느릴 뿐 아니라, 사용자 층에서 쓰기 요청이 집중될 경우 CPU, 메인 메모리에 심각한 오버헤드를 발생시킨다. 본 논문에서는 비휘발성 캐시의 역할을 하는 낸드 플래시 메모리의 성능을 향상시키기 위해 읽기의 참조 빈도는 낮고, 쓰기의 갱신 빈도가 높은 데이터 블록들을 교체하는 LFU(Least Frequently Used)-Hot 기법을 제시하고, 교체 될 데이터 블록들을 재배치하여 자기디스크로 플러싱하는 기법을 제시한다. 실험 결과, 본 논문에서 제안하는 LFU-Hot 블록 교체 기법과 멀티존 기반의 데이터 블록 재배치기법 실행시간이 기존 LRU, LFU 블록 교체 기법들보다 입출력 성능 면에서 최대 38% 빠르고, 비휘발성 캐시의 수명을 약 40% 이상 향상 시킴을 증명하였다.

Recently heterogeneous storage system such as hybrid hard disk drive (H-HDD) combining flash memory and magnetic disk is launched, according as the read performance of NAND flash memory is enhanced as similar to that of hard disk drive (HDD) and the power consumption of NAND flash memory is reduced less than that of HDD. However, the read and write operations of NAND flash memory are slower than those of rotational disk. Besides, serious overheads are incurred on CPU and main memory in the case that intensive write requests to flash memory are repeatedly occurred. In this paper, we propose the Least Frequently Used-Hot scheme that replaces the data blocks whose reference frequency of read operation is low and update frequency of write operation is high, and the data flushing scheme that rearranges the data blocks into the multi-zone of the rotation disk. Experimental results show that the execution time of the proposed method is 38% faster than those of conventional LRU and LFU block replacement schemes in I/O performance aspect and the proposed method increases the life span of Non-Volatile Cache 40% higher than those of conventional LRU, LFU, FIFO block replacement schemes.

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