Disk scheduling with quality of service guarantees

Bruno, John; Brustoloni, José Carlos; Gabber, Eran; Özden, Banu; Silberschatz, Abraham

doi:10.1109/mmcs.1999.778459

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“…Such management can be embedded in the shared storage resource's internal scheduler (e.g., disk schedulers) (Cello [24], Stonehenge [25], YFQ [26], PVFS [27]), which has direct control over the resource but requires the internal scheduler to be accessible and modifiable. The management can also be implemented via virtualization by interposing a layer between clients and their shared storage resources (Faç ade [17], SLEDS [18], SFQ(D) [6], GVFS [19]).…”

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confidence: 99%

vPFS: Bandwidth virtualization of parallel storage systems

Arteaga

Zhao

et al. 2012

012 IEEE 28th Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST)

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Abstract-Existing parallel file systems are unable to differentiate I/Os requests from concurrent applications and meet per-application bandwidth requirements. This limitation prevents applications from meeting their desired Quality of Service (QoS) as high-performance computing (HPC) systems continue to scale up. This paper presents vPFS, a new solution to address this challenge through a bandwidth virtualization layer for parallel file systems. vPFS employs user-level parallel file system proxies to interpose requests between native clients and servers and to schedule parallel I/Os from different applications based on configurable bandwidth management policies. vPFS is designed to be generic enough to support various scheduling algorithms and parallel file systems. Its utility and performance are studied with a prototype which virtualizes PVFS2, a widely used parallel file system. Enhanced proportional sharing schedulers are enabled based on the unique characteristics (parallel striped I/Os) and requirement (high throughput) of parallel storage systems. The enhancements include new threshold-and layout-driven scheduling synchronization schemes which reduce global communication overhead while delivering total-service fairness. An experimental evaluation using typical HPC benchmarks (IOR, NPB BTIO) shows that the throughput overhead of vPFS is small (< 3% for write, < 1% for read). It also shows that vPFS can achieve good proportional bandwidth sharing (> 96% of target sharing ratio) for competing applications with diverse I/O patterns.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

vPFS: Bandwidth virtualization of parallel storage systems

Arteaga

Zhao

et al. 2012

012 IEEE 28th Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST)

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“…As an example of this class of schedulers, we describe here YFQ (Yet another Fair Queueing), proposed by Bruno et al in [6]. It serves requests in batches; the requests belonging to each batch are chosen using WFQ [4], and can be sorted using a SCAN or C-LOOK discipline in order to improve the disk throughput.…”

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confidence: 99%

Modular software architecture for flexible reservation mechanisms on heterogeneous resources

Sójka

Píša

Faggioli

et al. 2011

Journal of Systems Architecture

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Management, allocation and scheduling of heterogeneous resources for complex distributed real-time applications is a challenging problem. Timing constraints of applications may be fulfilled by a proper use of real-time scheduling policies, admission control and enforcement of timing constraints. However, it is not easy to design basic infrastructure services that allow for an easy access to the allocation of multiple heterogeneous resources in a distributed environment.In this paper, we present a middleware for providing distributed soft real-time applications with a uniform API for reserving heterogeneous resources with real-time scheduling capabilities in a distributed environment. The architecture relies on standard POSIX OS facilities, such as time management and standard TCP/IP networking services, and it is designed around CORBA, in order to facilitate modularity, flexibility and portability of the applications using it. However, real-time scheduling is supported by proper extensions at the kernel-level, plugged within the framework by means of dedicated resource managers. Our current implementation on Linux supports reservation of CPU, disk and network bandwidth. However, additional resource managers supporting alternative real-time schedulers for these resources, as well as additional types of resources, may be easily added.We present experimental results gathered on both synthetic applications and a real multimedia video streaming case study, showing advantages deriving from the use of the proposed middleware. Finally, overhead figures are reported, showing sustainability of the approach for a wide class of complex, distributed, soft real-time applications.

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“…To address the similar problem in the domain of storage, various adaptations of these algorithms have been proposed. For example, YFQ [11], SFQ(D) [5] are based on Start-time Fair Queue (SFQ) [12]; SLEDS [13] and SARC [14] are adaptations of the leaky bucket algorithm; CVC [15] [4] adopts VirtualClock [7]. However, directly applying fair queuing-based algorithm to storage system can introduce unfairness within a short period of time (Section II-C).…”

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An Adaptive Mechanism for Fair Sharing of Storage Resources

Jin

Buyya

2009

2009 21st International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing

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Abstract-To ensure Quality of Service (QoS) for data centers, it is critical to enforce a fair share of storage resources between competing users. Interposed schedulers are one of the most practical methods for performance isolation. Most fair queuing-based proportional sharing algorithms for existing interposed scheduler are variants of counterparts designed for network routers and may result in breaking the fairness of proportional sharing required by Service Level Agreements for storage systems. This paper presents a novel algorithm to address this problem. As an extension of the fair queuingbased algorithm, it can dynamically adapt to the performance variation of storage systems and guarantee a fair sharing of resources as well as satisfying the minimal performance requirements for different clients. The design and performance evaluation are presented.

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Disk scheduling with quality of service guarantees

Cited by 116 publications

References 12 publications

vPFS: Bandwidth virtualization of parallel storage systems

vPFS: Bandwidth virtualization of parallel storage systems

Modular software architecture for flexible reservation mechanisms on heterogeneous resources

An Adaptive Mechanism for Fair Sharing of Storage Resources

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