Fragment Reconstruction: Providing Global Cache Coherence in a Transactional Storage System

“Fragment Reconstruction: Providing Global Cache Coherence in a Transactional Storage System” by Atul Adya, Miguel Castro, Barbara Liskov, Umesh Maheshwari, and Liuba Shrira. In International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (Baltimore, Maryland), May 1997.

Abstract

Cooperative caching is a promising technique to avoid the increasingly formidable disk bottleneck problem in distributed storage systems; it reduces the number of disk accesses by servicing client cache misses from the caches of other clients. However, existing cooperative caching techniques do not provide adequate support for fine-grained sharing. In this paper, we describe a new storage system architecture, split caching, and a new cache coherence protocol, fragment reconstruction, that combine cooperative caching with efficient support for fine-grained sharing and transactions. We also present the results of performance studies that show that our scheme introduces little overhead over the basic cooperative caching mechanism and provides better performance when there is fine-grained sharing.

BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{adya97fragment,
   author = {Atul Adya and Miguel Castro and Barbara Liskov and Umesh
	Maheshwari and Liuba Shrira},
   title = {Fragment Reconstruction: Providing Global Cache Coherence in a
	Transactional Storage System},
   booktitle = {International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems},
   address = {Baltimore, Maryland},
   month = may,
   year = {1997},
   url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/adya97fragment.html}
}