Optimizing the Copy-on-Write Mechanism of Docker by Dynamic Prefetching

Docker,as a mainstream container solution,adopts the Copy-on-Write(CoW)mechanism in its storage drivers.This mechanism satisfies the need of different containers to share the same image.However,when a single container performs operations such as modification of an image file,a duplicate is created in the upper readwrite layer,which contributes to the runtime overhead.When the accessed image file is fairly large,this additional overhead becomes non-negligible.Here we present the concept of Dynamic Prefetching Strategy Optimization(DPSO),which optimizes the Co W mechanism for a Docker container on the basis of the dynamic prefetching strategy.At the beginning of the container life cycle,DPSO pre-copies up the image files that are most likely to be copied up later to eliminate the overhead caused by performing this operation during application runtime.The experimental results show that DPSO has an average prefetch accuracy of greater than 78%in complex scenarios and could effectively eliminate the overhead caused by the CoW mechanism.

虚拟机环境下软件按需部署中的预取机制

针对大规模虚拟机环境下软件的按需部署,提出了一种基于预取的按需软件部署优化机制,能够降低用户端虚拟机的启动延迟以及为用户提供更好的虚拟机本地运行性能.基于用户使用软件的行为特点以及虚拟磁盘映像的细粒度分割,预取机制在后台对服务器端存储的虚拟磁盘映像进行预取,通过一种基于访问频率和优先级的预取目标识别算法AFPTR(access frequency and priority-based prefetch target recognition)和一种预取量动态调节机制,将预取集中在用户使用的少数小尺寸的虚拟磁盘映像上,并在预取过程中对预取量进行动态自适应地调节,以提高虚拟磁盘访问的本地命中率,进而提高用户端虚拟机的运行性能.基于QEMU虚拟机和Linux平台,实现了基于预取的按需软件部署原型系统.实验结果表明,预取机制能够有效地降低虚拟机的启动延迟,并能提高虚拟机的本地运行性能,支持虚拟机环境下按需、快速的软件部署.

ZFS文件系统Snapshot技术的分析

快照是一种重要的存储数据的技术,可以在不停止应用程序的情况下对数据进行备份。本文对Solaris平台下的ZFS文件系统中的快照技术进行了分析,介绍了快照的工作原理、实现技术及数据结构,并在ZFS中进行快照创建、数据恢复的实例分析,结果表明ZFS文件系统中的快照技术能避免数据的丢失,可以有效地保护该系统下的数据,并且在操作系统的实验教学中对文件系统的分析具有较大的实践意义。