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Flashcache

Mohan Srinivasan (Facebook), Mark Callaghan (Facebook)

2:30pm Thursday, 07/22/2010

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Flashcache is a simple Block Level Cache for Linux implemented at Facebook. It is built as a loadable kernel module, as a Device Mapper client. It supports both write back and write through caching modes. Flashcache is pushed onto the storage stack under the filesystem, with the intent of caching disk blocks on SSDs. Linux kernels from 2.6.18 to 2.6.32 are supported. The code is available for download on GitHub.

Flashcache enables the use of a flash device as a persistent cache of filesystem data. This can significantly reduce disk IO latency for IO bound applications. We will describe the use of Flashcache to improve MySQL performance, present benchmark results and describe its impact on operations.

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Mohan Srinivasan

Facebook

Mohan is a Kernel Engineer at Facebook focusing on the Linux Kernel, Performance and Scaling. Mohan has been working on Operating Systems, Storage. Networking, Performance and Scaling for over 20 years. Starting at Sun (Solaris), NetApp (Data OnTap), Yahoo (FreeBSD) and now at Facebook (Linux).

Mark Callaghan

Facebook

Mark leads the MySQL engineering team at Facebook. The team makes MySQL better for Facebook. He previously lead the MySQL engineering team at Google. Prior to Google Mark worked at Identity Engines, Oracle and Informix. Mark has an MS in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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