A storage device that is used mainly in the Hadoop system, HDD, has the slow transfer speed and long latency because of its physical limit. In addition, even though the SSD is the only alternative to traditional HDD, the price of it is too expensive. In order to improve this problem, some distributed file systems use SDD as a cache of HDD. In this paper, in the distributed file system that uses SSD as cache, we propose a mechanism that acquires a block ID that is scheduled to be used or already in use and loads it in SSD cache before the I/O request about the block is made in order to increase the performance of SSD cache during performance of Hadoop MapReduce task. In order to verify the reduction of MapReduce processing time and the improvement of Read I/O performance, which were run based on the proposed mechanism, experiments were carried out via Hadoop Benchmark tool. We could verify through the experiments that the performance of Hadoop MapReduce system was about 11% improved in the system where the proposed mechanism was applied than in the distributed file system where the existing SSD cache was applied.
CCS Concepts• Computer systems organization➝Distributed architectures;• Software and its engineering➝Software performance.
The MapReduce Program of Hadoop Distributed File System operates on any unspecified nodes due to distributed-parallel process and block replicate for data stability. Since it is difficult to guarantee the cache locality when a Solid State Drive is used as a cache in hadoop, cache hit-rate is decreased. In this paper, we suggest a method to improve cache hit rate by pre-loading the input data of the MapReduce onto the SSD cache. To perform this method, we estimated the blocks that are used on each node by using capacity scheduler and block metadata. Eventually we could increase the performance of SSD cache by loading the blocks onto SSD cache before the Map Task run.
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