On-line memorry defragmentation for NVM-based persistent heaps

Lin Li, Wei Jiang, Rui Pan, Jinyu Zhan, Zili Shao, Xiankui Xiong

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Abstract

Due to the durability of NVM, we are facing the great challenge of performing efficient memory defragmentation on persistent heaps. To address the problem, we propose an Online Persistent Memory Defragmentation (OPMD) method to manage persistent heaps. Employing two segment trees to track memory allocation and deallocation operations, our method can amortize the cost of global scan, and determine the most valuable objects needed to be moved in logarithmic time. OPMD adopts software transactional memory to move objects and updates object references in constant time using object metadata. We conduct extensive experiments to test the impact of OPMD on the throughput of the operations of linked list and hash table.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNVMSA 2017 - 6th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium
PublisherIEEE
ISBN (Electronic)9781538617687
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Oct 2017
Event6th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium, NVMSA 2017 - Hsinchu, Taiwan
Duration: 16 Aug 201718 Aug 2017

Conference

Conference6th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium, NVMSA 2017
Country/TerritoryTaiwan
CityHsinchu
Period16/08/1718/08/17

Keywords

  • Memory Defragmentation
  • NVM
  • Persistent heaps

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture

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