SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Simon Lund
Staff Software Engineer
Intel
Ziye Yang is a staff software engineer at Intel and involved in SPDK (storage performance development kit) development work. Before that, Ziye worked at EMC for 4.5 years. Ziye is interested in system virtualization, file system and storage related research and development work. Ziye currently has 15 issued patents in US and 7 issued patents in PRC. Ziye holds a master’s degree in computer science from Fudan University in 2009.
Related Sessions
xNVMe and io_uring NVMe Passthrough – What does it Mean for the SPDK NVMe Driver?
Almost 10 years ago, the SPDK userspace polled mode nvme driver showed performance and efficiency far surpassing what was capable with the Linux kernel. But in recent years, Linux has responded with io_uring and asynchronous NVMe passthrough interfaces. The xNVMe project has also helped storage projects and applications adapt to the ever-growing list of Linux storage interfaces. This talk will compare the strengths of the SPDK and Linux NVMe drivers, explain how xNVMe has enabled io_uring NVMe passthrough in SPDK, and share some early performance results.