• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.27-34
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• 2013

NAND Flash Memory has been used in several devices by low cost and high capacity, and the demand for mass NAND Flash Memory has increased due to the multimedia extension of mobile devices. The JFFS2, NILFS2, and YAFFS2 file systems are used mainly in NAND Flash Memory. In this paper, the performance of Sequential read/write of the 3 file systems are analyzed for the 4 I/O schedulers : CFQ(Complete Fair Queuing) I/O scheduler, NOOP(No Operation) I/O scheduler, Anticipatory I/O scheduler, and Deadline I/O scheduler. In JFFS2 file system, Anticipatory I/O scheduler has the best performance by 8% decreasing speed in writing time and 1.5% decreasing speed in reading time compared to the other I/O scheduler. In YAFFS2 file system, it results are similar to performance in reading and writing for the 4 I/O schedulers. In NILFS2 file system, NOOP I/O scheduler has 2% faster in writing and Deadline I/O scheduler has 6% faster in reading than other I/O schedulers.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.18-25
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• 2016

Virtualized hardware resources provides efficiency in use and easy of management. Based on the benefits, virtualization techniques are used to build large server clusters and cloud systems. The performance of a virtualized system is significantly affected by the virtual machine scheduler. However, the existing virtual machine scheduler have a problem in that the I/O response is reduced in accordance with the scheduling delay becomes longer. In this paper, we introduce the Loan/Redemption mechanism of a virtual machine scheduler in order to improve the responsiveness to I/O events. The proposed scheme gives additional credits for to virtual machines and classifies the task characteristics of each virtual machine by analyzing the credit consumption pattern. When an I/O event arrives, the scheduling priority of a virtual machine is temporally increased based on the analysis. The evaluation based on the implementation shows that the proposed scheme improves the I/O response 60% and bandwidth of virtual machines 62% compared to those of the existing virtual machine scheduler.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.91-97
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a MCFQ I/O scheduler that is implemented by modifying the existing Linux CFQ I/O scheduler. MCFQ observes whether the user requested I/O bandwidth weight is well distributed. Based on the I/O bandwidth observation, we improved I/O performance of the existing bandwidth distribution ability by dynamically controlling the I/O time-slice of the virtual machine. The use of SSDs as storage has been increasing dramatically in recent computer systems due to their fast performance and low power usage. As the usage of SSD increases and prices fall, virtualized system administrators can take advantage of SSDs. However, studies on guaranteeing SLA(Service Level Agreement) services when multiple virtual machines share the SSD is still incomplete. In this paper was conducted to improve performance of the bandwidth distribution when multiple virtual machine are sharing a single SSD storage in a virtualized environment. In particular, it was observed that the performance of the bandwidth distribution varied widely when garbage collection occurs in the SSD. In order to reduce performance variance, we add a MoTS(Manager of Time Slice) on existing CFQ I/O scheduler.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.5 no.11
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• pp.379-384
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• 2016

NAND flash storage is widely used for computer systems, because of it has faster response time, lower power consumption, and larger capacity per unit area than hard disk. However, currently used I/O scheduler in the operating system is optimized for characteristics of the hard disk. Therefore, the conventional I/O scheduler includes the unnecessary overhead in the case of the NAND flash storage to be applied. Particularly, when the write requests performed intensively, garbage collection is performed intensively. So, it occurs the problem that the processing of the I/O request delay. In this paper, we propose the new I/O scheduler to solve the problem of garbage collection performs intensively, and to optimize for NAND flash storage. In the result of performance evaluation, proposed scheme shows an improvement the user responsiveness by reducing 1% of the average read response time and 78% of the maximum response time.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.237-245
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• 2023

In the cloud service, system resource such as CPU, memory, I/O bandwidth are shared among multiple users. Particularly, in Linux containers environment, I/O bandwidth is distributed in proportion to the weight of each container through the BFQ I/O scheduler. However, since the I/O scheduler can only be applied to conventional block storage devices, it cannot be applied to Zoned Namespace(ZNS) SSD, a new storage interface that has been recently studied. To overcome this limitation, in this paper, we implemented a weighted proportional I/O bandwidth sharing scheme for ZNS SSDs in dm-zoned, which emulates conventional block storage using ZNS SSDs. Each user receives a different amount of budget, which is required to process the user's I/O requests based on the user's weight. If the budget is exhausted I/O requests cannot be processed and requests are queued until the budget replenished. Each budget refill period, the budget is replenished based on the user's weight. In the experiment, as a result, we can confirm that the I/O bandwidth can be distributed on their weight as we expected.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.97-103
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• 2020

Linux Cgroups takes a fundamental role for sharing system resources among multiple containers on container-based cloud computing environment. Especially for I/O resource, Linux Cgroups supports a mechanism for sharing I/O bandwidth in proportion to I/O weight. However, the current mechanism of Linux Cgroups using BFQ I/O scheduler seriously degrades the I/O performance with high bandwidth storage device such as NVMe SSDs. In this paper, we proposed a new feedback based I/O bandwidth sharing scheme for Linux Cgroups which allocates I/O credits to containers according to I/O weights and adjusts the amount of credits to performance fluctuation of NVMe SSDs. The proposed scheme is implemented on Linux kernel 5.3 and evaluated. The evaluation results show that it can share the I/O bandwidth among multiple containers proportionally to I/O weights while improving I/O performance more than twice as high as the existing scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06b
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• pp.423-426
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• 2011

SSD는 HDD와 다른 물리적 특성으로 인해 새로운 I/O 스케줄러를 요구하고 있다. 본 논문은 기존 CFQ 스케줄러가 SSD에서 어떤 성능을 보이는지 다양한 설정값 하에서 실험하고, 그 결과를 분석하여 SSD에서의 I/O 스케줄링 성능의 특징을 알아보고자 한다. 대상 설정값으로는 역탐색 제한 설정, FIFO 큐 내의 I/O 요청에 대한 만료 시간, I/O 요청 큐 별 할당 시간, 동기적 요청 큐를 위한 대기 시간을 고려하였다. 이러한 설정값을 다양하게 변화시키며 여러 개의 I/O 벤치마크 프로세스를 동시에 수행한 결과, 역탐색 제한을 제거하면 처리량이 상승하지만 그 폭이 매우 적으며, I/O 요청 만료 시간에 대해서는 연관성을 찾지 못하였다. I/O 요청 큐 별 할당 시간과 동기적 요청 큐를 위한 대기 시간은 클수록 처리량이 상승함을 보였다. CFQ의 목표인 평등성은 항상 97% 이상 보장됨을 관찰할 수 있었다. 우리는 이러한 결과가 차후 평등성을 보장하는 새로운 SSD I/O 스케줄러의 연구를 위한 초석이 되리라 기대한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06b
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• pp.460-464
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• 2010

SSD는 뛰어난 성능으로 인해 서버 시장에서 HDD를 빠르게 대체하며 각광받고 있다. 우리는 기존 SSD의 성능 분석이 단일한 I/O 패턴에 대해서만 이루어진 점을 주목하여, 다양한 패턴의 I/O가 동시에 수행 될 경우, 성능에 어떠한 영향이 있는지 평가해보고자 한다. 이를 위해 4KB부터 64MB까지 다양한 블록크기로 순차적/임의적 읽기/쓰기 연산을 수행함과 동시에 4KB 단위의 읽기/쓰기 I/O를 수행시켜 성능에 미치는 영향을 알아보았다. 이러한 평가를 네 가지 리눅스 I/O 스케줄러에 대해 각각 수행함으로써 스케줄러에 의한 영향 또한 평가하였다. 그 결과로 우리는 새로운 SSD의 성능 특성을 발견할 수 있었으며, 이는 새로운 I/O 스케줄러 및 SSD의 FTL 개발의 기반이 되리라 예상된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.1774-1776
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• 2010

Solid State Device(SSD)는 플래시 메모리 모듈을 기반으로한 차세대 저장장치로서 디스크 회전방식의 Hard Disk Drive(HDD)를 대체하는 장치로 주목받고 있다. 하지만, 현재의 운영체제 I/O 스케줄러는 HDD 에 최적화되어 있기 때문에 플래시 모듈 기반의 SSD 의 성능을 최대한 끌어내지 못하는 한계를 갖고 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서 우리는 SSD 의 성능을 끌어올리기 위해 SSD 의 특징을 분석하고 이를 바탕으로 SSD 에 최적화된 I/O 스케줄러를 고안하였다. 새로운 스케줄러(NSCHED)는 I/O Request 를 두 그룹으로 분류하고 각 요청에 타이머를 설정함으로써 I/O Request 를 빠르게 처리함과 동시에 기아방지를 위한 기법을 가진다. 우리는 Linux 2.6.30 에서 NSCHED 스케줄러를 구현하여 Postmark 벤치마크를 통해 성능평가를 수행했으며, NSCHED 스케줄러가 기본 Linux I/O 스케줄러보다 30% 가량 낮은 응답 시간이 소요됨을 확인했다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.9
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• pp.54-62
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• 2015

Although NAND flash-based SSD (Solid-State Drive) provides superior performance in comparison to HDD (Hard Disk Drive), it has a major drawback in write endurance. As a result, the lifetime of SSD is determined by the workload and thus it becomes a big challenge in current technology trend of such as the shifting from SLC (Single Level Cell) to MLC (Multi Level cell) and even TLC (Triple Level Cell). Most previous studies have dealt with wear-leveling or improving SSD lifetime regarding hardware architecture. In this paper, we propose the optimal configuration of host I/O stack focusing on file system, I/O scheduler, and link power management using JEDEC enterprise workloads in terms of WAF (Write Amplification Factor) which represents the efficiency perspective of SSD life time especially for host write processing into flash memory. Experimental analysis shows that the optimum configuration of I/O stack for the perspective of SSD lifetime is MinPower-Dead-XFS which prolongs the lifetime of SSD approximately 2.6 times in comparison with MaxPower-Cfq-Ext4, the best performance combination. Though the performance was reduced by 13%, this contributions demonstrates a considerable aspect of SSD lifetime in relation to I/O stack optimization.