Partitioned real-time NAND flash storage
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Accepted manuscript
Date
2018-01-01
Authors
Missimer, Katherine
West, Richard
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Accepted manuscript
Citation
Katherine Missimer, Richard West. 2018. "Partitioned Real-Time NAND Flash Storage." 2018 39TH IEEE REAL-TIME SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM (RTSS 2018). 39th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS). Nashville, TN, 2018-12-11 - 2018-12-14. https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSS.2018.00036
Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of guaranteeing performance and predictability of NAND flash memory in a real-time storage system. Our approach implements a new flash translation layer scheme that exploits internal parallelism within solid state storage devices. We describe the Partitioned Real-Time Flash Translation Layer (PaRT-FTL), which splits a set of flash chips into separate read and write sets. This ensures reads and writes to separate chips proceed in parallel. However, PaRT-FTL is also able to rebuild the data for a read request from a flash chip that is busy servicing a write request or performing garbage collection. Consequently, reads are never blocked by writes or storage space reclamation. PaRT-FTL is compared to previous real-time approaches including scheduling, over-provisioning and partial garbage collection. We show that by isolating read and write requests using encoding techniques, PaRT-FTL provides better latency guarantees for real-time applications.