io scheduler

Optimizations for Linux storage stack:

• Linux Block IO: Introducing Multi-queue SSD Access on Multi-core Systems, Systor 13
• Optimizing the Block I/O Subsystem for Fast Storage Devices, TOCS 14
• FlashShare: Punching Through Server Storage Stack from Kernel to Firmware for Ultra-Low Latency SSDs, OSDI 18
• Asynchronous I/O Stack: A Low-latency Kernel I/O Stack for Ultra-Low Latency SSDs, ATC 19
• Rearchitecting Linux Storage Stack for µs Latency and High Throughput, OSDI 21

User space I/O:

• SPDK: A Development Kit to Build High Performance Storage Applications, CloudCom 2017

I/O interface:

• Efficient IO with io_uring link
• Understanding Modern Storage APIs: A systematic study of libaio, SPDK, and io_uring, systor 22

Others:

• IOCost: block IO control for containers in datacenters, ASPLOS 2022

Resources

Linux Storage Stack

• A Block Layer Introduction Part I: The bio Layer
• Block layer introduction part 2: the request layer
• The Multiqueue Block Layer
• A Description of Linux Storage Stack
• Lecture(IBM): An Introduction to the Linux Kernel Block I/O Stack

io_uring

• What is io_uring?
• io_uring submission
• io_uring submission