Title
A Buffer Management Issue In Designing Ssds For Lfss
Abstract
This letter introduces a buffer management issue in designing SSDs for log-structured file systems (LFSs). We implemented a novel trace-driven SSD simulator in SystemC language, and simulated several SSD architectures with the NILFS2 trace. From the results, we give two major considerations related to the buffer management as follows. (1) The write buffer is used as a buffer not a cache, since all write requests are sequential in NILFS2. (2) For better performance, the main architectural factor is the bus bandwidth, but 332 MHz is enough. Instead, the read buffer makes a key role in performance improvement while caching data. To enhance SSDs, accordingly, it is an effective way to make efficient read buffer management policies, and one of the examples is tracking the valid data zone in NILFS2, which can increase the data hit ratio in read buffers significantly.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1587/transinf.E93.D.1644
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
NAND flash memory, solid state disk, log-structured file system, storage device
Computer science,Computer data storage,Cache,CPU cache,Write buffer,Write combining,SystemC,Bandwidth (signal processing),Operating system,Performance improvement,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E93D
6
1745-1361
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaegeuk Kim1534.38
Jinho Seol2313.70
Seung Ryoul Maeng38519.68