Improving I/O performance of Xen hypervisors for solid state drives

Hyunchan Park; Cheol Ho Hong; Younghyun Kim; Seehwan Yoo; Chuck Yoo

doi:10.1109/ICCE.2015.7066544

Improving I/O performance of Xen hypervisors for solid state drives

Hyunchan Park, Cheol Ho Hong, Younghyun Kim, Seehwan Yoo, Chuck Yoo

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Solid state drives (SSDs) are becoming increasingly popular in computing environment that employ virtualization. The Xen hypervisor is the most popular hypervisor for virtualization. In this paper, we discuss the performance of SSDs on the Xen hypervisor, show that the Xen I/O model causes performance degradation in SSDs, and analyze the reasons for the degradation. We then propose a new I/O processing method, clustering of fragmented I/O requests, which improves the I/O performance of SSDs. The evaluations indicate that our proposed method improves the I/O performance by as much as 7%.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	601-602
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479975426
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE.2015.7066544
Publication status	Published - 2015 Mar 23
Event	2015 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2015 - Las Vegas, United States Duration: 2015 Jan 9 → 2015 Jan 12

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Name	2015 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2015

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Other	2015 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas
Period	15/1/9 → 15/1/12

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Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Park, H., Hong, C. H., Kim, Y., Yoo, S., & Yoo, C. (2015). Improving I/O performance of Xen hypervisors for solid state drives. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2015 (pp. 601-602). Article 7066544 (2015 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2015). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE.2015.7066544

Improving I/O performance of Xen hypervisors for solid state drives. / Park, Hyunchan; Hong, Cheol Ho; Kim, Younghyun et al.
2015 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 601-602 7066544 (2015 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2015).

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Park, H, Hong, CH, Kim, Y, Yoo, S & Yoo, C 2015, Improving I/O performance of Xen hypervisors for solid state drives. in 2015 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2015., 7066544, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2015, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 601-602, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2015, Las Vegas, United States, 15/1/9. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE.2015.7066544

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