More Than Capacity: Performance-oriented Evolution of Pangu in Alibaba
summary
A global unified storage system evolves to deliver 100‑microsecond average latency by deploying a user‑space storage OS (USS OS), RDMA from 25Gbps to 100Gbps, and a redesign of file layout and RPCs to cut RPCs and context switches. Remote direct cache access (RDCA) bypasses DDR, CPU offload uses FPGA compression and NIC CRC, background TCP traffic shifts to RDMA to cut memory use ~75%, and network traffic amplification 66.3→2.9 yields a measured 6.1× throughput uplift and p99 write latency ≈1 ms.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:26Pangu: The Unified Storage Platform in Alibaba Cloud
- 2:35Storage Architecture based on Pangu2.0
- 3:30Performance Design Challenges for Pangu2.0
- 5:47Full Stack Optimization for Latency
- 7:28Methods to Guarantee Performance SLA
- 9:20Latency and SLA Evaluation
- 10:06Higher I/O Efficiency, Better Performance
- 11:02Breaking Network Bottleneck to Improve I/O Efficiency
- 11:54Breaking Memory Bottleneck to Improve I/O Efficiency
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