Title
Crash Consistent Non-Volatile Memory Express
Abstract
ABSTRACTThis paper presents crash consistent Non-Volatile Memory Express (ccNVMe), a novel extension of the NVMe that defines how host software communicates with the non-volatile memory (e.g., solid-state drive) across a PCI Express bus with both crash consistency and performance efficiency. Existing storage systems pay a huge tax on crash consistency, and thus can not fully exploit the multi-queue parallelism and low latency of the NVMe interface. ccNVMe alleviates this major bottleneck by coupling the crash consistency to the data dissemination. This new idea allows the storage system to achieve crash consistency by taking the free rides of the data dissemination mechanism of NVMe, using only two lightweight memory-mapped I/Os (MMIO), unlike traditional systems that use complex update protocol and heavyweight block I/Os. ccNVMe introduces transaction-aware MMIO and doorbell to reduce the PCIe traffic as well as to provide atomicity. We present how to build a high-performance and crash-consistent file system namely MQFS atop ccNVMe. We experimentally show that MQFS increases the IOPS of RocksDB by 36% and 28% compared to a state-of-the-art file system and Ext4 without journaling, respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3477132.3483592
SOSP
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaojian Liao101.01
Youyou Lu235630.81
Zhe Yang311.02
Jiwu Shu470972.71