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Flushing Policies for NVCache Enabled Hard Disks
San Diego, California, USA September 24-September 27
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Timothy Bisson, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Scott A. Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
One of the goals of upcoming hybrid hard disks is to reduce power consumption by adding a small amount of non-volatile flash memory (NVCache) to the drive itself. By using the NVCache to satisfy writes while the rotating media is spun-down, hard disk power consumption can be decreased by lengthening low-power periods. However, the NVCache must eventually be flushed back to the rotating media in order to cache additional data. In this paper we explore two questions: when and how should NVCache content be flushed to rotating media in order to minimize the overhead of data synchronization. We show that by using traditional I/O mechanisms such as merging and reordering, combined with a "flush only when full" policy, flushing performance improves significantly.
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Timothy Bisson, Scott A. Brandt, "Flushing Policies for NVCache Enabled Hard Disks," msst, pp.299-304, 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2007), 2007
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