@inproceedings{065cbb02b0d74f4583d2745958f1f225,
title = "Selective Flushing of Modified Data for Smartphone Buffer Cache Management",
abstract = "Buffer cache plays an important role to hide the slow performance of smartphone storage systems. However, as buffer cache consists of volatile DRAM, data may be lost upon a sudden power failure situation. To cope with this situation, data in the buffer cache are periodically flushed to storage. Although periodic flushing improves the reliability of smartphone data, it degrades the efficiency of buffer cache greatly as it amplifies write traffic to storage. In this paper, we show that a small size of persistent memory can eliminate the periodic flushing overhead of smartphone buffer cache by making use of some distinct write I/O behaviors of smartphones. Specifically, our write I/O analysis from popular smartphone applications shows that a limited number of hot data account for most file writes in smartphones, whereas a large portion of file data accessed in smartphones are written only once. Based on this observation, we present the selective flushing policy that adds small persistent memory to buffer cache and keeps frequently modified data in persistent memory without flushing to storage. We perform storage flushing only for written-once data, which are prohibited from entering persistent memory for space efficiency. By replaying popular smartphone application I/O traces, we show that the proposed selective flushing policy reduces the storage write I/O by 25.8% on average and up to 37.8%. ",
keywords = "buffer cache, file access, mobile application, Periodic flushing, persistent memory, smartphone",
author = "Soojung Lim and Hyokyung Bahn",
note = "Funding Information: ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by the ICT R&D program of MSIP/IITP (2020-0-00121, Development of data improvement and dataset correction technology based on data quality assessment) and also by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. 2019R1A2C1009275). Hyokyung Bahn is the corresponding author of this paper. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} IEEE 2022.; null ; Conference date: 08-12-2021 Through 10-12-2021",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1109/CSDE53843.2021.9718418",
language = "English",
series = "2021 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering, CSDE 2021",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2021 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering, CSDE 2021",
address = "United States",
}