Getting the MOST out of your Storage Hierarchy with Mirror-Optimized Storage Tiering

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Autori principali: Tu, Kaiwei, Wu, Kan, Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C., Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H.
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Tu, Kaiwei
Wu, Kan
Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C.
Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H.
author_facet Tu, Kaiwei
Wu, Kan
Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C.
Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H.
contents We present Mirror-Optimized Storage Tiering (MOST), a novel tiering-based approach optimized for modern storage hierarchies. The key idea of MOST is to combine the load balancing advantages of mirroring with the space-efficiency advantages of tiering. Specifically, MOST dynamically mirrors a small amount of hot data across storage tiers to efficiently balance load, avoiding costly migrations. As a result, MOST is as space-efficient as classic tiering while achieving better bandwidth utilization under I/O-intensive workloads. We implement MOST in Cerberus, a user-level storage management layer based on CacheLib. We show the efficacy of Cerberus through a comprehensive empirical study: across a range of static and dynamic workloads, Cerberus achieves better throughput than competing approaches on modern storage hierarchies especially under I/O-intensive and dynamic workloads.
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spellingShingle Getting the MOST out of your Storage Hierarchy with Mirror-Optimized Storage Tiering
Tu, Kaiwei
Wu, Kan
Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C.
Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H.
Operating Systems
We present Mirror-Optimized Storage Tiering (MOST), a novel tiering-based approach optimized for modern storage hierarchies. The key idea of MOST is to combine the load balancing advantages of mirroring with the space-efficiency advantages of tiering. Specifically, MOST dynamically mirrors a small amount of hot data across storage tiers to efficiently balance load, avoiding costly migrations. As a result, MOST is as space-efficient as classic tiering while achieving better bandwidth utilization under I/O-intensive workloads. We implement MOST in Cerberus, a user-level storage management layer based on CacheLib. We show the efficacy of Cerberus through a comprehensive empirical study: across a range of static and dynamic workloads, Cerberus achieves better throughput than competing approaches on modern storage hierarchies especially under I/O-intensive and dynamic workloads.
title Getting the MOST out of your Storage Hierarchy with Mirror-Optimized Storage Tiering
topic Operating Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03279