CONTINUOUS DATA REORGANIZATION
Contact: Greg Ganger
Automated Tuning of Disk Layouts
The mechanical positioning delays of disk accesses continue to plague
system performance. To address this, many heuristics have been developed
for adapting on-disk data layouts to expected and observed workload
characteristics. We are developing a two-tiered software architecture
for cleanly and extensibly combining such heuristics. In this architecture,
each heuristic is implemented independently and an adaptive combiner
merges their suggestions based on how well they work in the given environment.
The result is a simpler and more robust system for automated tuning
of
disk layouts.
People
FACULTY
Mike Mesnier
Brandon Salmon
Craig Soules
Eno Thereska
Acknowledgements
We thank the members and companies of the PDL Consortium: American Power Conversion, Data Domain, Inc., EMC Corporation, Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Hitachi, IBM, Intel Corporation, LSI, Microsoft Research, NetApp, Inc., Oracle Corporation, Seagate Technology, Sun Microsystems, Symantec Corporation and VMware, Inc. for their interest, insights, feedback, and support.