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QEMU/KVM Based In-Memory Block Cache Module for Virtualization Environment
TaeHoon Kim, KwangHyeok Song, JaeChun No, SungSoon Park
http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2017.44.10.1005
Recently, virtualization has become an essential component of cloud computing due to its various strengths, including maximizing server resource utilization, easy-to-maintain software, and enhanced data protection. However, since virtualization allows sharing physical resources among the VMs, the system performance can be deteriorated due to device contentions. In this paper, we first investigate the I/O overhead based on the number of VMs on the same server platform and analyze the block I/O process of the KVM hypervisor. We also propose an in-memory block cache mechanism, called QBic, to overcome I/O virtualization latency. QBic is capable of monitoring the block I/O process of the hypervisor and stores the data with a high access frequency in the cache. As a result, QBic provides a fast response for VMs and reduces the I/O contention to physical devices. Finally, we present a performance measurement of QBic to verify its effectiveness.
Consideration of fsync() of the Ext4 File System According to Kernel Version
Seongbae Son, Yoenjin Noh, Dokeun Lee, Sungsoon Park, Youjip Won
Ext4 file system is widely used in various computing environments such as those of the PC, the server, and the Linux-based embedded system. Ext4, which uses a buffer for block I/O, provides fsync() system call to applications to guarantee the consistency of a specific file. A log of the analytical studies regarding the operation of Ext4 and the improvement of its performance has been compiled, but it has not been studied in detail in terms of kernel versions. We figure out that the behavior of fsync() system call is different depending on the kernel version. Between the kernel versions of 3.4.0 and 4.7.2, 3.4.0, 3.8.0, and 4.6.2 showed behavioral differences regarding the fsync() system call. The latency of fsync() in kernel 3.4.0 is longer than that of the more-advanced 3.7.10; meanwhile, the characteristics of 3.8.0 enabled the disruption of the Ext4 journaling order, but the ordered defect was solved with 4.6.2.
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