Efficient and Atomic-Durable Persistent Memory through In-PM Hybrid Logging
Journal
Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 11th Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium, NVMSA 2022
ISBN
9781665450782
Date Issued
2022-01-01
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Abstract
Persistent memory (PM) is promising as it offers comparable performance to DRAM with the durable property of storage devices. It has become a real-world solution with the release of Intel Optane DIMM. The key challenge for PM is to support atomic durability efficiently. In this paper, we propose the first hardware logging mechanism based on two features of Optane DIMM, persistent write pending queue (WPQ) and the DIMM controller. We leverage the persistent WPQ to serve as a redo-log area and augment the DIMM controller to support in-PM undo logging without inducing extra bus traffic. The results show our mechanism is practical yet effective, achieving 59.1% higher throughput than the state-of-the-art logging mechanism.
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Type
conference paper