Hybrid storage systems that integrate DRAM and non-volatile memory (NVM) have gained attention as an effective solution to enhance the endurance and performance of solid-state drives (SSD). However, traditional buffer replacement policies tend to focu...
Hybrid storage systems that integrate DRAM and non-volatile memory (NVM) have gained attention as an effective solution to enhance the endurance and performance of solid-state drives (SSD). However, traditional buffer replacement policies tend to focus solely on access frequency, without considering the sequential characteristics of write operations. This limitation leads to inefficient merge behavior in the Flash Translation Layer (FTL) and results in increased write amplification.
To address this issue, this work presents a hybrid buffer management architecture named CLOCK-LOG-DPP, which integrates two complementary policies. CLOCK-DPP is a frequency-aware policy that retains dirty pages in DRAM to reduce write pressure on NVM, while LOG-DPP is a merge-aware strategy that clusters logically adjacent pages and prioritizes those with high sequentiality scores for eviction to promote switch merges.
CLOCK-DPP reduces the total write count, block erasures, and energy consumption by up to 23.1%, 19.8%, and 25.7%, respectively, compared to baseline methods. LOG-DPP further enhances write efficiency, reducing write count by up to 38.6%, block erasures by 34.2%, and energy usage by 41.3%, while maintaining comparable cache hit ratios.
When deployed as a unified framework, CLOCK-LOG-DPP achieves up to 40.9% reduction in overall write amplification, while significantly improving SSD endurance and energy efficiency. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of combining frequency-aware and merge-aware strategies in hybrid SSD buffer management.