Performance Evaluation of Block Device Layer with Automatic Parallelism Tuning Using Heterogeneous IP-SAN Protocols

Author

Nishijima, Takamichi ; Ohsaki, Hiroyuki ; Nomoto, Yoshihiro ; Imase, Makoto

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

19-23 July 2010

Firstpage

343

Lastpage

346

Abstract

In our previous work, we have proposed a block device layer called BDL-APT (Block Device Layer with Automatic Parallelism Tuning), which maximizes the performance of heterogeneous IP-SAN protocols in a long-fat network. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of BDL-APT with heterogeneous IP-SAN protocols (i.e., iSCSI, NBD and GNBD) in a long-fat network. We implemented BDL-APT as a layer of MD (Multiple Device) driver, which is one of major software RAID implementations included in the Linux kernel. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of BDL-APT with heterogeneous IP-SAN protocols in long-fat networks regardless of IP-SAN protocols.

Keywords

RAID; parallel processing; performance evaluation; storage area networks; transport protocols; Internet small computer system interface; Linux kernel; automatic parallelism tuning; block device layer; heterogeneous IP-SAN protocols; long-fat network; multiple device driver; performance evaluation; software RAID implementation; Bandwidth; Delay; Parallel processing; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Storage area networks; Tuning; Automatic Parallelism Tuning (APT); IP-based Storage Area Network (IP-SAN); block device layer; long-fat networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications and the Internet (SAINT), 2010 10th IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7526-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4107-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAINT.2010.70

Filename

5598045