LADIO: Leakage-Aware Direct I/O for I/O-Intensive Workloads

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The advancement in I/O technology has posed an unprecedented demand for high-performance processing on I/O data, leading to the development of Data Direct I/O (DDIO) technology. DDIO improves I/O processing efficiency by directly injecting all inbound I/O data into the last-level cache (LLC) in cooperation with any type of I/O device. Nonetheless, in certain scenarios with more than one I/O applications, DDIO may have sub-optimal performance caused by interference inside the LLC, resulting in the degradation of system performance. Especially, in this paper, we demonstrate that storage I/O on modern high-performance NVMe SSDs hardly benefits from DDIO, sometimes causing inefficient use of the shared LLC due to the “leaky DMA problem”. To address this problem, we propose LADIO , an adaptive approach that mitigates inter-application interference by dynamically controlling the DDIO functionality and reallocating LLC ways based on the leakage and locality of storage I/O data, respectively. In scenarios with heavy I/O interference, LADIO improves the throughput of network-intensive applications by 20% while maintaining that of storage-intensive applications.
Funding Information
  • Intel Transformative Server Architectures Center
  • Samsung
  • PRISM
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Semiconductor Research Corporation
  • National Research Foundation of Korea (2021R1C1C1010861, 2022R1A4A5034130)

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