Latency management in storage systems
Rodney Van Meter, Minxi Gao · 2000
Storage Latency Estimation Descriptors, or SLEDs, are an API that allow applications to understand and take advantage of the dynamic state of a storage system. By accessing data in the file system cache or high-speed storage first, total I/O workloads can be reduced and performance improved. SLEDs report estimated data latency, allowing users, system utilities, and scripts to make file access decisions based on those retrieval time estimates. SLEDs thus can be used to improve individual application performance, reduce system workloads, and improve the user experience with more predictable behavior.