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| author | Pestka, Constantin Paradies, Marcus Pohl, Matthias |
| author_facet | Pestka, Constantin Paradies, Marcus Pohl, Matthias |
| contents | The performance of storage hardware has improved vastly recently, leaving the traditional I/O stack incapable of exploiting these gains due to increasingly large relative overheads. Newer asynchronous I/O APIs, such as io_uring, have significantly improved performance by reducing such overheads, but exhibit limited adoption in practice. In this paper, we discuss the complexities that the usage of these contemporary I/O APIs introduces to applications, which we believe are mostly responsible for their low adoption rate. Finally, we share implications and trade offs made by architectures that may be used to integrate asynchronous I/O into DB applications. |
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| spellingShingle | Asynchronous I/O -- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility Pestka, Constantin Paradies, Marcus Pohl, Matthias Databases Operating Systems The performance of storage hardware has improved vastly recently, leaving the traditional I/O stack incapable of exploiting these gains due to increasingly large relative overheads. Newer asynchronous I/O APIs, such as io_uring, have significantly improved performance by reducing such overheads, but exhibit limited adoption in practice. In this paper, we discuss the complexities that the usage of these contemporary I/O APIs introduces to applications, which we believe are mostly responsible for their low adoption rate. Finally, we share implications and trade offs made by architectures that may be used to integrate asynchronous I/O into DB applications. |
| title | Asynchronous I/O -- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility |
| topic | Databases Operating Systems |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16254 |