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Kyber (scheduler)
Input/output (I/O) scheduling is the method that computer operating systems use to decide in which order Input/output, I/O operations will be submitted to Volume (computing), storage volumes. I/O scheduling is sometimes called disk scheduling. Purpose I/O scheduling usually has to work with hard disk drives that have long Access Time, access times for requests placed far away from the current position of the disk head (this operation is called a seek). To minimize the effect this has on system performance, most I/O schedulers implement a variant of the elevator algorithm that reorders the incoming randomly ordered requests so the associated data would be accessed with minimal arm/head movement. I/O schedulers can have many purposes depending on the goals; common purposes include the following * To minimize time wasted by hard disk seeks * To prioritize a certain process (computing), processes' I/O requests * To give a share of the disk bandwidth to each running process * To g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Linux Storage Stack Diagram
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Shortest Seek First
Shortest seek first (or shortest seek time first) is a secondary storage scheduling algorithm to determine the motion of the disk read-and-write head in servicing read and write requests. Description This is a direct improvement upon a first-come first-served (FCFS) algorithm. The drive maintains an incoming buffer of requests, and tied with each request is a cylinder number of the request. Lower cylinder numbers indicate that the cylinder is closer to the spindle, while higher numbers indicate the cylinder is farther away. The shortest seek first algorithm determines which request is closest to the current position of the head, and then services that request next. Analysis The shortest seek first algorithm has the direct benefit of simplicity and is clearly advantageous in comparison to the FIFO method, in that overall arm movement is reduced, resulting in a lower average response time. However, since the buffer is always getting new requests, these can skew the service t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native Command Queuing
In computing, Native Command Queuing (NCQ) is an extension of the Serial ATA protocol allowing hard disk drives to internally optimize the order in which received read and write commands are executed. This can reduce the amount of unnecessary drive head movement, resulting in increased performance (and slightly decreased wear of the drive) for workloads where multiple simultaneous read/write requests are outstanding, most often occurring in server-type applications. History Native Command Queuing was preceded by Parallel ATA's version of Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ). ATA's attempt at integrating TCQ was constrained by the requirement that ATA host bus adapters use ISA bus device protocols to interact with the operating system. The resulting high CPU overhead and negligible performance gain contributed to a lack of market acceptance for TCQ. NCQ differs from TCQ in that, with NCQ, each command is of equal importance, but NCQ's host bus adapter also programs its own first party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tagged Command Queuing
Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ) is a technology built into certain ATA and SCSIin the form of Parallel SCSI, Serial attached SCSI, and Fibre Channel drives hard drives. It allows the operating system to send multiple read and write requests to a hard drive. ATA TCQ is not identical in function to the more efficient Native Command Queuing (NCQ) used by SATA drives. SCSI TCQ does not suffer from the same limitations as ATA TCQ. Without TCQ, an operating system was limited to sending one request at a time. To boost performance, the OS had to determine the order of the requests based on its own possibly incorrect perspective of the hard drive activity (otherwise known as I/O scheduling). With TCQ, the drive can make its own decisions about how to order the requests (and in turn relieve the operating system from having to do so). Thus TCQ can improve the overall performance of a hard drive if it is implemented correctly. Overview For increased efficiency the sectors should be serviced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Scheduler
The deadline scheduler is an I/O scheduler for the Linux kernel which was written in 2002 by Jens Axboe. Overview The main goal of the Deadline scheduler is to guarantee a start service time for a request. It does so by imposing a deadline on all I/O operations to prevent starvation of requests. It also maintains two deadline queues, in addition to the sorted queues (both read and write). Deadline queues are basically sorted by their deadline (the expiration time), while the sorted queues are sorted by the sector number. Before serving the next request, the deadline scheduler decides which queue to use. Read queues are given a higher priority, because processes usually block on read operations. Next, the deadline scheduler checks if the first request in the deadline queue has expired. Otherwise, the scheduler serves a batch of requests from the sorted queue. In both cases, the scheduler also serves a batch of requests following the chosen request in the sorted queue. By def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noop Scheduler
The NOOP scheduler is the simplest I/O scheduler for the Linux kernel. This scheduler was developed by Jens Axboe. Overview The NOOP scheduler inserts all incoming I/O requests into a simple FIFO queue and implements request merging. This scheduler is useful when it has been determined that the host should ''not'' attempt to re-order requests based on the sector numbers contained therein. In other words, the scheduler assumes that the host is unaware of how to productively re-order requests. There are (generally) three basic situations where this situation is desirable: * If I/O scheduling will be handled at a lower layer of the I/O stack. Examples of lower layers that might handle the scheduling include block devices, intelligent RAID controllers, Network Attached Storage, or an externally attached controller such as a storage subsystem accessed through a switched Storage Area Network. Since I/O requests are potentially rescheduled at the lower level, resequencing IOPs at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anticipatory Scheduling
Anticipatory scheduling is an algorithm for scheduling hard disk input/output (I/O scheduling). It seeks to increase the efficiency of disk utilization by "anticipating" future synchronous I/O, synchronous read operations. I/O scheduling "Deceptive idleness" is a situation where a process (computing), process appears to be finished reading from the disk when it is actually processing data in preparation of the next read operation. This will cause a normal Work-conserving scheduler, work-conserving I/O scheduler to switch to servicing I/O from an unrelated process. This situation is detrimental to the throughput of synchronous reads, as it degenerates into a seeking workload. Anticipatory scheduling overcomes deceptive idleness by pausing for a short time (a few milliseconds) after a read operation in ''anticipation'' of another close-by read requests. Anticipatory scheduling yields significant improvements in disk utilization for some workloads. In some situations the Apache web ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Completely Fair Queuing
Completely Fair Queuing (CFQ) is an I/O scheduler for the Linux kernel which was written in 2003 by Jens Axboe. Description CFQ places synchronous requests submitted by processes into a number of per-process queues and then allocates timeslices for each of the queues to access the disk. The length of the time slice and the number of requests a queue is allowed to submit depends on the I/O priority of the given process. Asynchronous requests for all processes are batched together in fewer queues, one per priority. While CFQ does not do explicit anticipatory I/O scheduling, it achieves the same effect of having good aggregate throughput for the system as a whole, by allowing a process queue to idle at the end of synchronous I/O thereby "anticipating" further close I/O from that process. It can be considered a natural extension of granting I/O time slices to a process. History Prior to the integration In February 2003 Andrea Arcangeli put forward his idea for a Stochastic Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FSCAN
FSCAN is a disk scheduling algorithm to determine the motion of the disk's arm and head in servicing read and write requests. It uses two sub-queues. During the scan, all of the requests are in the first queue and all new requests are put into the second queue. Thus, service of new requests is deferred until all of the old requests have been processed. When the scan ends, the arm is taken to the first queue entries and is started all over again. Analysis FSCAN along with N-Step-SCAN prevents "arm stickiness" unlike SSTF, SCAN, and C-SCAN. Arm stickiness in those other algorithms occurs when a stream of requests for the same track causes the disk arm to stop progressing at that track, preferring to satisfy the no-seek requests for the track it is on. Because FSCAN separates requests into two queues, with new requests going into a waiting queue, the arm continues its sweep to the outer track and is therefore not "sticky." There is an obvious trade-off in that the requests in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
N-Step-SCAN
N-Step-SCAN (also referred to as N-Step LOOK) is a disk scheduling algorithm to determine the motion of the disk's arm and head in servicing read and write requests. It segments the request queue into subqueues of length ''N''. Breaking the queue into segments of ''N'' requests makes service guarantees possible. Subsequent requests entering the request queue won't get pushed into ''N'' sized subqueues which are already full by the elevator algorithm. As such, starvation is eliminated and guarantees of service within ''N'' requests is possible. Another way to look at N-step SCAN is this: A buffer for ''N'' requests is kept. All the requests in this buffer are serviced in any particular sweep. All the incoming requests in this period are not added to this buffer but are kept up in a separate buffer. When these top ''N'' requests are serviced, the IO scheduler chooses the next ''N'' requests and this process continues. This allows for better throughput and avoids starvation. An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elevator Algorithm
The elevator algorithm (also SCAN) is a hard disk, disk-I/O scheduling, scheduling algorithm to determine the motion of the disk's arm and head in servicing read and write requests. This algorithm is named after the behavior of a building elevator, where the elevator continues to travel in its current direction (up or down) until empty, stopping only to let individuals off or to pick up new individuals heading in the same direction. From an implementation perspective, the disk drive, drive maintains a data buffer, buffer of pending read/write requests, along with the associated Cylinder (disk drive), cylinder number of the request, in which lower cylinder numbers generally indicate that the cylinder is closer to the spindle, and higher numbers indicate the cylinder is farther away. Description When a new request arrives while the drive is idle, the initial arm/head movement will be in the direction of the cylinder where the data is stored, either ''in'' or ''out''. As addi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LIFO (computing)
In computer science, a stack is an abstract data type that serves as a collection of elements, with two main operations: * Push, which adds an element to the collection, and * Pop, which removes the most recently added element that was not yet removed. Additionally, a peek operation can, without modifying the stack, return the value of the last element added. Calling this structure a ''stack'' is by analogy to a set of physical items stacked one atop another, such as a stack of plates. The order in which an element added to or removed from a stack is described as last in, first out, referred to by the acronym LIFO. As with a stack of physical objects, this structure makes it easy to take an item off the top of the stack, but accessing a datum deeper in the stack may require taking off multiple other items first. Considered as a linear data structure, or more abstractly a sequential collection, the push and pop operations occur only at one end of the structure, referred to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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