磁盘阵列双控制器缓存镜像技术研究-计算机系统结构专业论文.docx

华中科技大学硕士学位论文 华 中 科 技 大 学 硕 士 学 位 论 文 II II Abstract With the rapid development of information technology, the importance and value of information continuous growth, consequently, higher requirements of reliability and availability of the storage system are emphasized. Currently, the disk array has become the basic unit in large-scale storage systems; as the core component of a disk array, the diskarray controller’s performance directly determines the overall performance of the disk array . Therefore, to design a disk array controller with high reliability and availability has become a hot research topic in the storage system field. Cache is designed by allocating an area from the memory of the dual-controller.Each Cache block consist of a physical page frame.The Cache blocks are organized in some logical structure as radix tree,meanwhile reading and writing Least-Recently-Used lists are created for Cache scheduling.Additional memory area is allocated for the mirror Cache space,Cache blocks from which are also organized into radix tree. In consideration of cost and portability,mirror data synchronized transmission via kernel socket interface functions is a proper method. Data mirroring strategy is focus on the size of the dirty data (spatial locality) and the update frequency of the same Cache block (temporal locality), respectively,and the mirror synchronization mechanisms based on the size of the data and the time interval have been completed.The Cache block-based data mirroring function module has been implemented upon the device handle layer of iSCSI target middle layer SCST (SCSI Target mid-level). Several kinds of experiments have been conducted on the dual-controller disk array. The test results show that the I/O performance of the disk array with Cache has been improved to some extent, and the dirty data isn’t lost when one of the dual controller came to fail which means the reliability is enhanced. Keywords: Cache Mirroring, Disk Array, Principle of Locality