Scalability of spatial reuse based serial storage interfaces

Tai Sheng Chang, Sangyup Shim, David H Du

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Abstract

In order to understand the fundamental performance of storage subsystem, an analytical model for the serial storage interfaces with the spatial reuse feature is derived. Based on this model, the maximum aggregate throughput from different system configurations and load distributions is investigated. Result shows how the number of disks needed to saturate a loop varies with different number of hosts and different load scenarios. It also shows how the load balancing by uniformly distributing the load to all the disks on a loop may incur high overhead. These results show the achievable throughput may be reduced by more than half in some cases.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Annual Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems, IOPADS
PublisherACM
Pages93-101
Number of pages9
StatePublished - Dec 1 1997
EventProceedings of the 1997 5th Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems - San Jose, CA, USA
Duration: Nov 17 1997Nov 17 1997

Other

OtherProceedings of the 1997 5th Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems
CitySan Jose, CA, USA
Period11/17/9711/17/97

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