From luna to solar: the evolutions of the compute-to-storage networks in Alibaba cloud
Rui Miao, Lingjun Zhu, Shu Ma, Kun Qian, Shujun Zhuang, Bo Li, Shuguang Cheng, Jiaqi Gao, Yan Zhuang, Pengcheng Zhang, Rong Liu, Chao Shi
2022Year
79Citations
41Top-tier citations
Abstract
This paper presents the two generations of storage network stacks that reduced the average I/O latency of Alibaba Cloud's EBS service by 72% in the last five years: Luna, a user-space TCP stack that corresponds the latency of network to the speed of SSD; and Solar, a storage-oriented UDP stack that enables both storage and network hardware accelerations.
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