• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.776-787
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• 2000

Write requests which stored in disk cache of the RAID5 controller should be destaged to disk arrays according to the destage algorithm. As the response performance of the parallel IO request is being hit by the effect of the destage, several destage algorithms have been studied to enhance the performance of he RAID5 controller. Among the destage algorithms, the load balancing destage algorithm has better performance than other destage algorithms when system load is highly increased. But the load balancing destage algorithm gives priority to load balance among the disks in disk arrays, therefore, when some disks are affected by the very heavy system load caused by small data requests, the load balancing destage algorithm cannot enhance the performance of parallel IO requests effectively since it makes effort to maintain the load balance without the benefit of the locality of the write requests. This paper proposes a new RAID5 controller that applied reference-load balancing destage algorithm which decides the destage priority based on the reference history and load distribution of the disks. The simulation results show that RAID5 controller with the reference-load balancing destage algorithm has better performance than previous load balancing destage algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.25-27
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• 2003

RAID 시스템에서 디스크 캐시는 시스템 성능 향상에 중요한 요소 중 하나이다. 2단계 캐시는 1단계 캐시에 비해 우수한 성능을 보이고 시간적, 공간적 지역성에도 효율적이다. 제안된 캐시 시스템은 2 단계로 구성되어 1단계 캐시는 작은 블록 크기로 구성되어 세트 연관 사상 방식을 이용하고 2단계 캐시는 큰 블록 크기로 구성되어 전 연관 사상 방식을 사용한다. 본 논문에서는 특히 대용량 디스크 캐시에서 디스크입출력 시간을 향상시키고 효율적으로 일관성을 유지할 수 있는 디스크 제어기 상에 위치하는 RAID 5 디스크 캐시의 모델을 제시하여 적중률을 향상시켜 수행속도를 개선시키고자 한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.10A no.2
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• pp.83-92
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• 2003

RAID 5 is a widely-used technique used to construct disk systems of high reliability and performance. This paper proposes APGOC (Adaptive Parity Group On Cache) organization on cache to solve "small write" problem of RAID 5 especially in OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing System) environments. In our approach, when user process makes a request for a file to kernel, the information on the read/write characteristics is added to the file data structure of the file system. With this information, data and parity cache can be managed interchangeably through parity fetching. Therefore we can enhance the cache utilization and improve the disk request response time. Our method is analyzed and evaluated with a simulation method. Comparing with previous works, we observed about 6~l3% of performance enhancement.hancement.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.435-438
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• 2003

RAID 시스템에서 비 휘발성 쓰기 캐시를 이용한 디스크 제어기는 시스템 성능 향상의 중요한 요소 중 하나이다. 2 단계 캐시는 l 단계 캐시에 비해 우수한 성능을 보이고 시간적, 공간적 지역성에도 효율적이며 호스트 측에 비 휘발성 기억소자로 구성된 L1 캐시를 두어 디스크 캐시의 신뢰도를 높일 수 있다. 호스트에서 읽기/쓰기 적중된 데이터가 LI 캐시에서 수행되는 동안 12캐시에서는 디스크로 destage하는 동작을 비동기적으로 병렬 처리하고 데이터와 패리티를 함께 캐시에 적재하여 RAID 5 의 "소규모 쓰기 문제"를 완화시키고자 한다. 제안된 캐시 시스템은 2 단계로 구성되어 대용량 디스크 캐시에서 디스크 입출력 시간을 향상시키고 효율적으로 일관성을 유지할 수 있는 디스크 제어기 상에 위치하는 RAID 5 디스크 캐시 모델을 제시하여 수행속도를 개선시키고자 한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.675-683
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• 2000

For real time services of multimedia applications, storage systems should provide data without degrading their performance. Since it is very important to recover data immediately at a disk failure, the disk recovery system is required. This paper presents a hybrid recovery scheme which prevents degraded the performance on a single disk failure at RAID level 5 architecture until the failed disk is replaced with a new disk. The proposed scheme is very economical compared to previous spare disk schemes because it does not use extra disks. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated and analyzed with that of the RAID level 5 for various requested sizes through the simulation. The results show that the performance of the proposed scheme is improved up to 20 percents at the failure mode and 80 percents at the reconfigured mode. After a multimedia server system has been built with a RAID controller and hard disks, the data recovery performance of the propose scheme are compared with the results of simulation.