File Fragmentation from the Perspective of I/O Control
Proceedings of the 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems(2022)
摘要
File fragmentation has been widely studied for several decades due to its detrimental effects on I/O activities. However, most of the previous research focuses on its performance aspect in a single application. In this paper, we analyze the effect of fragmentation on I/O control in a consolidated system where multiple applications run simultaneously. Our evaluation demonstrates that all of the weight-based I/O control mechanisms supported by the Linux kernel fail to achieve fair I/O sharing for different reasons when they meet fragmentation. Also, we show that defragmentation can promptly antidote such failures by preventing request splitting and device-level resource conflicts.
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关键词
File fragmentation,I/O control,cgroups
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