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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2022
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Induja Sreekanthan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sriram Subramanian, Mountain View, CA (US);
Athanasios Papathanasiou, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Vijayan Prabhakaran, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods for improving performance of tiered storage of a data processing service by detecting and reducing thrashing of data blocks between warm and cold storage tiers are disclosed. In order to understand the frequency of hits by incoming queries to data blocks that are not currently stored in the warm storage tier, the elapsed time between query hits to the respective data blocks may be tracked using timers. Times below a given amount of time may be used to indicate thrashing. For example, recently evicted data blocks that are subsequently hit by a query within a short amount of time since eviction may indicate thrashing. In scenarios in which thrashing may be occurring, a threshold corresponding to the number of times a given data block in the cold storage tier receives a query hit before being added to the warm storage tier may be turned on.