DML
DML Sharif University of Technology
RC-RNN: Reconfigurable Cache Architecture for Storage Systems Using Recurrent Neural Networks
  None   2021      
S. Ebrahimi , R. Salkhordeh , S.A. Osia , A. Taheri , H.R. Rabiee and H. Asadi
Solid-State Drives (SSDs) have significant performance advantages over traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) such as lower latency and higher throughput. Significantly higher price per capacity and limited lifetime, however, prevents designers to completely substitute HDDs by SSDs in enterprise storage systems. In this paper, we propose RC-RNN, the first reconfigurable SSD-based cache architecture for storage systems that utilizes machine learning to identify performance-critical data pages for I/O caching. The proposed architecture uses Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) to characterize ongoing workloads and optimize itself towards higher cache performance while improving SSD lifetime. RC-RNN attempts to learn characteristics of the running workload to predict its behavior and then uses the collected information to identify performance-critical data pages to fetch into the cache. We implement the proposed architecture on a physical server equipped with a Core-i7 CPU, 256GB SSD, and a 2TB HDD running Linux kernel 4.4.0. Experimental results show that RC-RNN characterizes workloads with an accuracy up to 94.6% for SNIA I/O workloads. RC-RNN can perform similarly to the optimal cache algorithm by an accuracy of 95% on average, and outperforms previous SSD caching architectures by providing up to 7x higher hit ratio and decreasing cache replacements by up to 2x.
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IEEE