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However, efficiently disaggregating SSDs remains a challenge because of their high performance variability. This is due to differences in flash characteristics, such as wear and model version; read/write interference; and SSD-internal operations like garbage collection. Existing systems can only manage these types of variability in isolation. We propose Sandook, a rack-scale block storage system that instead holistically manages them together to unlock higher performance. Sandook achieves this through a logically centralized architecture that can integrate multiple scheduling policies and respond effectively at both short and long timescales. It adaptively steers I/O to the best available SSDs, using techniques that enable greater routing flexibility for both reads and writes. Sandook does not require any special storage or network hardware. Our evaluation demonstrates that Sandook is capable of delivering the full performance potential of SSDs. It achieves a 30%–82% raw I/O throughput improvement over existing systems that tackle a single source of performance variability while maintaining sub-millisecond tail latency. For unmodified applications sharing a pool ofSSDs, Sandook achieves a 12–94% improvement in end-to-end performance.  \n1 Introduction  \nStorage disaggregation—where a pool of disks are exposed over the network—is a key technique used in datacenters to drive up utilization [4, 37, 52, 56, 72, 74] . Solid-state drives (SSDs), however, are more difficult to pool than hard disk drives (HDDs) because of their high performance variability. As a result, the worst performing SSD can often limit overall performance. For example, in the common scenario where I/Os are statically striped across SSDs, Figure 1 reveals that half the potential performance of the underlying pool is left untapped. This variability is difficult to manage because it takes many forms including heterogeneity from model version, wear, and capacity [24]; sensitivity to load characteristics like the ratio between reads and writes [69]; and transient events like garbage collection (GC) [73] .  \nSeveral existing systems have mitigated these sources of variability, but they each specialize in handling a specific type. For example, Gimbal [52], RackBlox [61] and LinnOS [23] can detect and route around transient events in individual  \nSSDs, but lack awareness of their heterogeneity and load characteristics. On the other hand, Rails [69] and SWAN [34] segregate reads and writes to improve throughput, but cannot react to transient events. Unfortunately, because they each manage only one form of variability, they all leave significant performance on the table. However, combining these disparate approaches is difficult because they often place contradictory constraints on how to direct I/O to SSDs (§4) . For example, normally isolating reads and writes to separate SSDs improves their throughput, but it can also harm it if one SSD is slower than normal due to wear. Moreover, if an SSD is designated to handle only writes, load must still be shifted away from it if it be","cbCaiaM4qJJKsS4f","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaM4qJJKsS4f","pdf",3324776,"English","# Introduction\n## Performance variability challenges in SSD disaggregation\n## Sandook overview and core approach\n## Two-tier logically centralized scheduling\n## I/O steering flexibility for reads and writes","[{\"question\":\"What makes SSD disaggregation difficult compared with HDD disaggregation?\",\"answer\":\"SSDs exhibit high performance variability, so the worst-performing SSD can bottleneck the entire pooled system.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of performance variability does Sandook jointly manage?\",\"answer\":\"Sandook addresses SSD heterogeneity from wear and model differences, read/write interference, and transient effects from SSD-internal operations like garbage collection.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Sandook reconcile fast reactions with high-quality routing decisions?\",\"answer\":\"It uses a two-tier logically centralized architecture: a global scheduler optimizes load distribution at a slower pace, while faster client-side schedulers execute the plan and react quickly to urgent events.\"}]","Unleashing The Potential of Datacenter SSDs - Taming Performance Variability | PDF"]