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Maximizing I/O Throughput and Minimizing Performance Variation via Reinforcement Learning Based I/O Merging for SSDs


Abstract:

Merging technique is widely adopted by I/O schedulers to maximize system I/O throughput. However, I/O merging could increase the latency of individual I/O, thus incurring...Show More

Abstract:

Merging technique is widely adopted by I/O schedulers to maximize system I/O throughput. However, I/O merging could increase the latency of individual I/O, thus incurring prolonged I/O latencies and enlarged performance variations. Even with better system throughput, higher worst-case latency experienced by some requests could block the SSD storage system, which violates the QoS (Quality of Service) requirement. In order to improve QoS performance while providing higher I/O throughput, this paper proposes a reinforcement learning based I/O merging approach. Through learning the characteristic of various I/O patterns, the proposed approach makes merging decisions adaptively based on different I/O workloads. Evaluation results show that the proposed scheme is capable of reducing the standard deviation of I/O latency by 19.1 percent on average, worst-case latency by 7.3-60.9 percent at the 99.9th percentile compared with the latest I/O merging scheme, while maximizing system throughput.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Computers ( Volume: 69, Issue: 1, 01 January 2020)
Page(s): 72 - 86
Date of Publication: 03 September 2019

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