Towards High-Performance Application-Level Storage Management
Authors:
Simon Peter, Jialin Li, Doug Woos, Irene Zhang, Dan R. K. Ports, Thomas Anderson, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Mark Zbikowski, University of Washington
Abstract:
We propose a radical re-architecture of the traditional operating system storage stack to move the kernel off the data path. Leveraging virtualized I/O hardware for disk and flash storage, most read and write I/O operations go directly to application code. The kernel dynamically allocates extents, manages the virtual to physical binding, and performs name translation. The benefit is to dramatically reduce the CPU overhead of storage operations while improving application flexibility.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings {183615,
author = {Simon Peter and Jialin Li and Irene Zhang and Dan R. K. Ports and Thomas Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy and Mark Zbikowski and Doug Woos},
title = {Towards {High-Performance} {Application-Level} Storage Management},
booktitle = {6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage 14)},
year = {2014},
address = {Philadelphia, PA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotstorage14/workshop-program/presentation/peter},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
}
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