I/O Deduplication: Utilizing content similarity to improve I/O performance

  • Authors:
  • Ricardo Koller;Raju Rangaswami

  • Affiliations:
  • Florida International University, Miami, FL;Florida International University, Miami, FL

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Duplication of data in storage systems is becoming increasingly common. We introduce I/O Deduplication, a storage optimization that utilizes content similarity for improving I/O performance by eliminating I/O operations and reducing the mechanical delays during I/O operations. I/O Deduplication consists of three main techniques: content-based caching, dynamic replica retrieval, and selective duplication. Each of these techniques is motivated by our observations with I/O workload traces obtained from actively-used production storage systems, all of which revealed surprisingly high levels of content similarity for both stored and accessed data. Evaluation of a prototype implementation using these workloads showed an overall improvement in disk I/O performance of 28 to 47% across these workloads. Further breakdown also showed that each of the three techniques contributed significantly to the overall performance improvement.