Scalable Persistent Memory File System with Kernel-Userspace Collaboration

We introduce Kuco, a novel direct-access file system architecture whose main goal is scalability. Kuco utilizes three key techniques – collaborative indexing, two-level locking, and versioned reads – to offload time-consuming tasks, such as pathname resolution and concurrency control, from the kernel to userspace, thus avoiding kernel processing bottlenecks. Upon Kuco, we present the design and implementation of KucoFS, and then experimentally show that KucoFS has excellent performance in a wide range of experiments; importantly, KucoFS scales better than existing file systems by up to an order of magnitude for metadata operations, and fully exploits device bandwidth for data operations.