Optimizing deterministic garbage collection in NAND flash storage systems

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Zhang ◽  
Xuandong Li ◽  
Linzhang Wang ◽  
Tian Zhang ◽  
Yi Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Garbage Collection ◽  
Storage Systems ◽  
Nand Flash ◽  
Flash Storage

scholarly journals A Cache Policy Based on Request Association Analysis for Reliable NAND-Based Storage Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 6623
Author(s):  
Chi-Hsiu Su ◽  
Chin-Hsien Wu
Keyword(s):  
Association Analysis ◽  
Flash Memory ◽  
Free Space ◽  
Garbage Collection ◽  
Storage Systems ◽  
Nand Flash ◽  
Solid State Drives ◽  
Nand Flash Memory ◽  
Spatial Locality ◽  
Cache Hit Ratio

Compared with the traditional hard-disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs) have adopted NAND flash memory and become the current popular storage devices. However, when the free space in NAND flash memory is not enough, the garbage collection will be triggered to recycle the free space. The activities of the garbage collection include a large amount of data written and time-consuming erase operations that can reduce the performance of NAND flash memory. Therefore, DRAM is usually added to NAND flash memory as cache to store frequently used data. The typical cache methods mainly utilize the data characteristics of temporal locality and spatial locality to keep the frequently used data in the cache as much as possible. In addition, we find that there are not only temporal/spatial locality, but also certain associations between the accessed data. Therefore, we suggest that a cache policy should not only consider the temporal/spatial locality but also consider the association relationship between the accessed data to improve the cache hit ratio. In the paper, we will propose a cache policy based on request association analysis for reliable NAND-based storage systems. According to the experimental results, the cache hit ratio of the proposed method can be increased significantly when compared with the typical cache methods.

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