2 papers
cs.DC2021
BuffetFS: Serve Yourself Permission Checks without Remote Procedure Calls
Yanliang Zou, Bin Yang, Jian Zhang +2
The remote procedure call (a.k.a. RPC) latency becomes increasingly significant in a distributed file system. We propose BuffetFS, a user-level file system that optimizes I/O perfo…
cs.OS2020
Stage Lookup: Accelerating Path Lookup using Directory Shortcuts
Yanliang Zou, Tongliang Deng, Jian Zhang +2
The lookup procedure in Linux costs a significant portion of file accessing time as the virtual file system (VFS) traverses the file path components one after another. The lookup p…