@inproceedings{64fa78c672a54b169526a5b38115890d,
title = "Linux block IO: Introducing multi-queue SSD access on multi-core systems",
abstract = "The IO performance of storage devices has accelerated from hundreds of IOPS five years ago, to hundreds of thousands of IOPS today, and tens of millions of IOPS projected in five years. This sharp evolution is primarily due to the introduction of NAND-ash devices and their data parallel design. In this work, we demonstrate that the block layer within the operating system, originally designed to handle thousands of IOPS, has become a bottleneck to overall storage system performance, specially on the high NUMA-factor processors systems that are becoming commonplace. We describe the design of a next generation block layer that is capable of handling tens of millions of IOPS on a multi-core system equipped with a single storage device. Our experiments show that our design scales graciously with the number of cores, even on NUMA systems with multiple sockets.",
keywords = "Block layer, Latency, Linux, Non-volatile memory, Solid state drives, Throughput",
author = "Matias Bj{\o}rling and Jens Axboe and David Nellans and Philippe Bonnet",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1145/2485732.2485740",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450321167",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th International Systems and Storage Conference, SYSTOR 2013",
note = "6th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference, SYSTOR 2013 ; Conference date: 30-06-2013 Through 02-07-2013",
}