Efficient wear leveling for inodes of file systems on persistent memories

Xianzhang Chen, Edwin H.M. Sha, Yuansong Zeng, Chaoshu Yang, Weiwen Jiang, Qingfeng Zhuge

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Abstract

Existing persistent memory file systems achieve high-performance file accesses by exploiting advanced characteristics of persistent memories (PMs), such as PCM. However, they ignore the limited endurance of PMs. Particularly, the frequently updated inodes are stored on fixed locations throughout their lifetime, which can easily damage PM with common file operations. To address such issues, we propose a new mechanism, Virtualized Inode (VInode), for the wear leveling of inodes of persistent memory file systems. In VInode, we develop an algorithm called Pages as Communicating Vessels (PCV) to efficiently find and migrate the heavily written inodes. We implement VInode in SIMFS, a typical persistent memory file system. Experiments are conducted with well-known benchmarks. Compared with original SIMFS, experimental results show that VInode can reduce the maximum value and standard deviation of the write counts of pages to 1800x and 6200x lower, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2018 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1524-1527
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9783981926316
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Apr 2018
Event2018 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2018 - Dresden, Germany
Duration: 19 Mar 201823 Mar 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2018 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2018
Volume2018-January

Conference

Conference2018 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2018
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityDresden
Period19/03/1823/03/18

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