Mahinder Saluja | Director of SSD Technology and Pathfinding
KIOXIA America, Inc.

Mahinder Saluja, Director of SSD Technology and Pathfinding, KIOXIA America, Inc.

Mahinder has 20+ years of engineering leadership in innovative storage technologies development, building teams and product delivery.   Currently Mahinder heads SSD technology strategy at KIOXIA America, Inc., collaborating with industry experts.  He has several pending storage related patents.

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Future of Memory and Storage - Day 1 @ 09:50

Advancing Tiered Memory Solutions with DAMON Enhancements for CXL Attached Flash

As DRAM shortages and rising costs drive the search for alternative memory technologies, low-latency flash memories, especially those attached via CXL, are emerging as cost-effective solutions for large-scale and AI-driven workloads. CXL-attached flash enables tiered and pooled storage, combining the reliability and speed of flash with CXL’s high bandwidth and low latency to overcome traditional storage bottlenecks. This talk highlights recent Linux kernel enhancements to DAMON, focusing on extending the CXL Hotness Monitoring Unit perf driver. The new patch improves DAMON’s ability to monitor and manage access patterns for long-latency CXL-attached flash memory. These optimizations pave the way for more efficient and scalable memory management in high-performance computing environments.

Mahinder Saluja, Director of SSD Technology and Pathfinding, KIOXIA America, Inc.

Future of Memory and Storage - Day 1 @ 10:30

A Case for Leveraging CMB to Access Underutilized SSD DRAM Memory Bandwidth

High-performance SSDs use onboard DRAM for FTL tables and internal management, with DRAM capacities increasing as SSD densities grow.  As SSDs adopt newer DRAM technologies like DDR5, a large portion often 40-50% of DRAM bandwidth remains underutilized by internal SSD operations. NVMe Controller Memory Buffer (CMB) and SLM (System Local Memory) features allow this unused DRAM bandwidth to be exposed to host applications. Leveraging CMB and SLM can unlock significant aggregate memory bandwidth across millions of SSDs in data centers, supporting high performance workloads and new use cases. This paper discusses the architectural considerations and performance benefits of tapping into SSD DRAM bandwidth for enhanced resource efficiency in modern storage systems.

Mahinder Saluja, Director of SSD Technology and Pathfinding, KIOXIA America, Inc.
last published: 22/May/26 11:05 GMT

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