Shai Bergman, Technion; Niklas Cassel and Matias Bjørling, Western Digital; Mark Silberstein, Technion
We introduce ZNSwap, a novel swap subsystem optimized for the recent Zoned Namespace (ZNS) SSDs. ZNSwap leverages ZNS's explicit control over data management on the drive and introduces a space-efficient host-side Garbage Collector (GC) for swap storage co-designed with the OS swap logic. ZNSwap enables cross-layer optimizations, such as direct access to the in-kernel swap usage statistics by the GC to enable fine-grain swap storage management, and correct accounting of the GC bandwidth usage in the OS resource isolation mechanisms to improve performance isolation in multi-tenant environments. We evaluate ZNSwap using standard Linux swap benchmarks and two production key-value stores. ZNSwap shows significant performance benefits over the Linux swap on traditional SSDs, such as stable throughput for different memory access patterns, and 10 times lower 99th percentile latency and 5 times higher throughput for memcached key-value store under realistic usage scenarios.
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author = {Shai Bergman and Niklas Cassel and Matias Bj{\o}rling and Mark Silberstein},
title = {{ZNSwap}: {un-Block} your Swap},
booktitle = {2022 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 22)},
year = {2022},
isbn = {978-1-939133-29-12},
address = {Carlsbad, CA},
pages = {1--18},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc22/presentation/bergman},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jul
}
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