[cs615asa] [CS 615 meetup notes] - Noah Goldstein - ngoldste

[Noah Goldstein]

Hi all! This evening I attended a talk at ASPLOS 2021 on Clobber-NVM, a failure-atomicity library that ensures data consistency by re-execution


Clobber-NVM: Log Less, Re-execute More:


Summary:

Clobber-NVM is a compiler-based nonvolatile memory solution for data and logging loss. It is meant to solve the recovery logging problem by executing within NVM. Using an undo log, re-execution can allow for the persistence of recovery. Clobber-NVM restores inconsistent data within data that is overlapped between read and right areas of memory, and uses a Vlog to record reads, and re-execute transactions to recreate lost writes. It outperforms other recovery formats.



This is related to CS615 because data loss is a real problem that system administrators deal with constantly. A well-created solution to recover lost data through re-execution of transactions uses nonvolatile memory is a very lucrative system, giving peace of mind and consistency.


I chose this talk because we were talking recently about the usefulness of logging, and I wanted to get a second view on some alternatives and what the forefront of the industry is thinking about to move forward.


I learned about nonvolatile memory, and how a failure-atomicity library works to retrieve clobbered memory through re-execution. I also learned why this problem even exists, and the challenges that are created when readable memory overlaps with writable memory and clobbers data.




The publication can be found here
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3445814.3446730

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