Jeongho Lee;Sangjun Kim;Jaeyong Lee;Jaeyoung Kang;Sungjin Lee;Nam Sung Kim;Jihong Kim
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Abstract
Emerging data-intensive applications with frequent small random read operations challenge the throughput capabilities of conventional SSD architectures. Although Compute Express Link enabled SSDs allow for fine-grained data access with reduced latency, their read throughput remains limited by legacy block-oriented designs. To address this, we propose ${\sf srNAND}$, an advanced NAND flash architecture for CXL SSDs. It uses a two-stage ECC decoding mechanism to reduce read amplification, an optimized read command sequence to boost parallelism, and a request merging module to eliminate redundant operations. Our evaluation shows that ${\sf srSSD}$ can improve read throughput by up to 10.4× compared to conventional CXL SSDs.
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