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IO Management and Disk Scheduling
B. Ramamurthy
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Introduction In addition to primary memory (volatile), computer systems
provide users secondary storage units which may be used for persistent (or permanent) storage.
A file is a collection of data elements grouped together for the purposes of access control, retrieval and modification.
A file system together with IO management subsystem accomplish the mapping of abstract user interface into the actual collection of hardware such as disk, tape etc. of varying characteristics.
Recently there has been lot of interest in a storage medium called RAID. We will look into this (11.6)
We will study IO management in this discussion (Ch.11) and File system in the next chapter (Ch. 12)
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Topics for discussion
IO devices Device Characteristics IO Design Objectives A model of IO Organization Buffering Disk IO Disk scheduling Disk cache RAID storage Summary
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IO Devices
IO devices can be grouped into three categories: Human readable: Suitable for use with
computer user. Example: video display terminals, keyboard, mouse and printers.
Machines readable: Example: disks, tapes, sensors, controllers.
Communication: Suitable for communicating with remote devices: Drivers, modems, sockets, etc.
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Device Characteristics
Devices vary widely in characteristics such as: Data rate, applications, complexity of control, unit of transfer, data representation, Error conditions.
Programmed IO , Interrupt-driven IO and Direct-memory access are three techniques for performing IO.
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IO Design Objectives
Efficiency : IO operations often form the bottleneck in a computing system.
Generality: Handle all devices in a uniform manner. How? Use hierarchical, modular approach to design of
IO subsystem. This approach hides most of the details of
device details in lower-levels so that processes and upper levels of OS see devices in terms of general functions such as Read, Write, Open, Lock, UnLock etc.
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A Model of IO OrganizationUser Processes User Processes User Processes
Logical IO Comm. Arch.Dir. Mgt.
Physical Org.
File System
Device IO
Sched. & Control
Hardware
Device IO
Sched & Control
Hardware
Device IO
Sched &Control
Hardware
Local Peripheral Device Comm Port File System
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Buffering
In order to avoid inefficiencies associated with direct transfer from user-process to IO device, buffering schemes can be used.
Buffering smoothes out the peaks in IO demand.Buffering depends on the type of IO device:
Block-oriented (Ex: disks) and Stream-oriented (terminal, comm. ports).
Stream-oriented IO: single buffering;Block-oriented Devices: double buffer, circular
buffer
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Disk IO
A disk contains a stack of recording surfaces each surface with a movable read/write head.
Each surface has circular tracks and each track divided into sectors. A stack of tracks make up a cylinder.
To read or write, the head must be positioned at the desired track and at the beginning of the desired sector.
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Disk IO
Seek Time (Ts) is the time it takes to position the head at the desired track.
Rotational Delay (Tr) is the time it takes to to line up the head at the beginning of the desired sector.
Access Time (Ta ) = Ts + TrThe data transfer time (Tt) is the time to
read/write data at the desired position.
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Disk Scheduling
Among the times Seek time is the most critical. Average access time can be improved by reducing the average Seek Time.
Assumption: A queue of requests for each IO device is maintained. At any time a number of requests from various processes are in the queue. Consider a sequence of n-requests for scheduling.
Example: Tracks: 55, 58, 39, 18, 90, 160, 150, 38 Using FIFO, SSTF, SCAN, C-SCAN. Table 11.3,
Fig.11.7
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Disk CacheA disk cache is a buffer in main memory for
disk sectors.Cache contains a copy of the some of the
sectors on the disk. When a IO request is made for a particular
sector, if the data is available on disk cache it is taken. Otherwise it can be brought into the cache from the disk.
Similar to virtual memory principles. Directory blocks are good candidates for caching.
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Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)
Is a set of disk drives viewed by operating system as a single logical device.
Data are distributed across the physical drives of an array.
Redundant disk capacity is used to store parity information, which guarantees data recoverability in case of disk failure.
Raid levels 0 to 7
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RAID Levels
RAID 0 - striping RAID 1 - Mirrored RAID 2 - Error correcting using Hamming code RAID 3 - bit-interleaved parity RAID 4 - Block-interleaved parity (independent
access) RAID 5 - Block-interleaved parity (independent
access) RAID 6 - P + Q redundancy RAID 7 - heterogeneous devices
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RAID (contd.)
Unique contribution of the RAID is to address the need for redundancy.
Principle : redundancy + compensate for reduced reliability
Even though use of multiple heads and actuators result in higher transfer rates, they also introduce higher probability of failure.
To compensate for this decreased reliability, RAID makes use of stored parity information to recover data lost due to disk failure.
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RAID 1
RAID 0 : data is “striped” across many disks similar to interleaved memory. Not actually RAID. No redundancy but high transfer rate due to organization.
RAID 1 : redundancy is achieved by simple duplicating. Read can be performed by either disk which ever
has lower seek and rotational time. Write can be performed simultaneous on the two
disks. Recovery from failures is simple: use the surviving
disk.
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RAID 2
RAID 2 - RAID 5 have some kind of parity.
RAID 2 : striping Hamming error correcting code 4 data disks , 3 Hamming code disks Effective in environment which are error
prone.
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RAID 3
Similar to RAID but only one single redundant disk.
Single redundant disk contains the parity info of the bits across the four disks.
Single disk failure can be tolerated with slightly lower transfer rate until the failed disk is replaced.
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RAID 4 and 5
Independently accessible.Strip parity (text calls it block parity).Large strips.In RAID 4 parity is stored on a single
disk, and in RAID 5 parity is distributed over disks.
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RAID 6 and RAID 7
RAID 6 : real fault tolerance hardware included. Significantly more expensive than RAID 5.
RAID 7 : using distributed and heterogenous sources of data.
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Summary
Look at exercises 11.1, 11.2, 11.7, 11.8Hardware characteristics underlying IO
devices are abstracted for presenting easier-to-use and uniform logical interface to the processes.
Performance improvement is another important objective which is achieved through buffering schemes and scheduling algorithms.