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Design and Implementation of I/O Performance Benchmarking Framework for Linux Container

  • Oh, Gijun (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Son, Suho (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Yang, Junseok (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Ahn, Sungyong (School of Computer Science and Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2021.01.03
  • Accepted : 2021.01.12
  • Published : 2021.02.28
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Abstract

In cloud computing service it is important to share the system resource among multiple instances according to user requirements. In particular, the issue of efficiently distributing I/O resources across multiple instances is paid attention due to the rise of emerging data-centric technologies such as big data and deep learning. However, it is difficult to evaluate the I/O resource distribution of a Linux container, which is one of the core technologies of cloud computing, since conventional I/O benchmarks does not support features related to container management. In this paper, we propose a new I/O performance benchmarking framework that can easily evaluate the resource distribution of Linux containers using existing I/O benchmarks by supporting container-related features and integrated user interface. According to the performance evaluation result with trace-replay benchmark, the proposed benchmark framework has induced negligible performance overhead while providing convenience in evaluating the I/O performance of multiple Linux containers.

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