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REGISTOR

REGISTOR This article presents REGISTOR, a platform for regular expression grabbing inside storage. The main idea of Registor is accelerating regular expression (regex) search inside storage where large data set is stored, eliminating the I/O bottleneck problem. A special hardware engine for regex search is designed and augmented inside a flash SSD that processes data on-the-fly during data transmission from NAND flash to host. To make the speed of regex search match the internal bus speed of a modern SSD, a deep pipeline structure is designed in Registor hardware consisting of a file semantics extractor, matching candidates finder, regex matching units (REMUs), and results organizer. Furthermore, each stage of the pipeline makes the use of maximal parallelism possible. To make Registor readily usable by high-level applications, we have developed a set of APIs and libraries in Linux allowing Registor to process files in the SSD by recombining separate data blocks into files efficiently. A working prototype of Registor has been built in our newly designed NVMe-SSD. Extensive experiments and analyses have been carried out to show that Registor achieves high throughput, reduces the I/O bandwidth requirement by up to 97%, and reduces CPU utilization by as much as 82% for regex search in large datasets. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) Association for Computing Machinery

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Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 ACM
ISSN
1553-3077
eISSN
1553-3093
DOI
10.1145/3310149
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Abstract

This article presents REGISTOR, a platform for regular expression grabbing inside storage. The main idea of Registor is accelerating regular expression (regex) search inside storage where large data set is stored, eliminating the I/O bottleneck problem. A special hardware engine for regex search is designed and augmented inside a flash SSD that processes data on-the-fly during data transmission from NAND flash to host. To make the speed of regex search match the internal bus speed of a modern SSD, a deep pipeline structure is designed in Registor hardware consisting of a file semantics extractor, matching candidates finder, regex matching units (REMUs), and results organizer. Furthermore, each stage of the pipeline makes the use of maximal parallelism possible. To make Registor readily usable by high-level applications, we have developed a set of APIs and libraries in Linux allowing Registor to process files in the SSD by recombining separate data blocks into files efficiently. A working prototype of Registor has been built in our newly designed NVMe-SSD. Extensive experiments and analyses have been carried out to show that Registor achieves high throughput, reduces the I/O bandwidth requirement by up to 97%, and reduces CPU utilization by as much as 82% for regex search in large datasets.

Journal

ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Mar 26, 2019

Keywords: Regular expressions

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