TPL: A data layout method for reducing rotational latency of modern hard disk drive

Xiao Li*, Yu An Tan

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Abstract

This paper proposes a data layout method for reducing the rotation delay of read access in Modern hard disk drive. TPL (Track Partition Layout) is a data layout that mainly bases on the detailed knowledge of the hard disk's physical geometry. By dividing one disk track into a set of partitions of sectors and duplicating data in these partitions, the rotational latency would be greatly reduced. And the method also contribute to minimizing the response time of disk request. We have implemented this layout method in the widely used disk simulator - DiskSim by slightly revising the code in disk controller module, and have chosen four different types of disk to run the experiment. As the simulation shows, with a typical workload trace, the average rotational latency decreased to 70% when dividing a track into only two partitions. This number further drops to 42% when the number of partition reaches 32. Also, the average overall I/O system response time drops correspondingly from 83% to 65%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 WRI World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering, CSIE 2009
Pages336-340
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Event2009 WRI World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering, CSIE 2009 - Los Angeles, CA, United States
Duration: 31 Mar 20092 Apr 2009

Publication series

Name2009 WRI World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering, CSIE 2009
Volume7

Conference

Conference2009 WRI World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering, CSIE 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLos Angeles, CA
Period31/03/092/04/09

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