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Adaptive replacement cache

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Basic LRU maintains an ordered list (the cache directory) of resource entries in the cache, with the sort order based on the time of most recent access. New entries are added at the top of the list, after the bottom entry has been evicted. Cache hits move to the top, pushing all other entries down.
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as read caches. In OpenZFS, disk reads often hit the first level disk cache in RAM using ARC. If a SSD is set up to store the second level disk cache, it is called an L2ARC. L2ARC uses the same ARC algorithm, but instead of storing the cached data in RAM, L2ARC stores the cached data in a fast SSD.
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ARC improves the basic LRU strategy by splitting the cache directory into two lists, T1 and T2, for recently and frequently referenced entries. In turn, each of these is extended with a
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marker. From there, it is again pushed outward, from T2 into B2. Entries in L2 that get another hit can repeat this indefinitely, until they finally drop out on the far right of B2.
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used ARC in its buffer manager for a brief time (version 8.0.0), but quickly replaced it with another algorithm, citing concerns over an IBM patent on ARC.
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filesystem page cache in virtual memory. It has been modified to allow for locked pages that are currently in use and cannot be vacated.
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T1 and B1 together are referred to as L1, a combined history of recent single references. Similarly, L2 is the combination of T2 and B2.
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lists only contain metadata (keys for the entries) and not the resource data itself, i.e. as an entry is evicted into a
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Any entry in L1 that gets referenced once more, gets another chance, and enters L2, just to the right of the central
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indicates the target size for T1, and may be equal to, smaller than, or larger than the actual size (as indicated by
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lists act as scorecards by keeping track of the history of recently evicted cache entries, and the algorithm uses
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brackets indicate actual cache, which although fixed in size, can move freely across the B1 and B2 history.
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ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache (2003) by Nimrod Megiddo, Dharmendra Modha
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list its data is discarded. The combined cache directory is organised in four LRU lists:
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L1 is now displayed from right to left, starting at the top, indicated by the
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list (B1 or B2), which is attached to the bottom of the two lists. These
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entries recently evicted from the T1 cache, but are still tracked.
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hits to adapt to recent change in resource usage. Note that the
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back to the left. The last entry in T1 is now evicted into B1.
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The whole cache directory can be visualised in a single line:
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uses a variant of ARC as an alternative to the traditional
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to the right. The last entry in T2 is evicted into B2.
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Entries (re-)entering the cache (T1, T2) will cause
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T2, for frequent entries, referenced at least twice.
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source file explains differences with original work
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Index

Adaptive Replacement Cache
page replacement algorithm
LRU
Almaden Research Center
patent for the adaptive replacement cache policy
DS8000
Sun Microsystems
ZFS
Solaris
PostgreSQL
VMware
OpenZFS
multi-level cache
Clock with Adaptive Replacement
LIRS caching algorithm
Usenix :login; August 2003
Nimrod Megiddo
Dharmendra Modha
2010-03-09 archive of the ARC home page
arc.c
"The Saga of the ARC Algorithm and Patent"
"VMware vSAN Caching Algorithms"
"ZFS Caching"
"ZFS Primer"
"Persistent L2ARC might be coming to ZFS on Linux"
"Cache: L2ARC accesses"
"ZFS L2ARC"
"Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC) and L2ARC"
ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache (2003) by Nimrod Megiddo, Dharmendra Modha
Linux Memory Management Wiki

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