Paper Notes

Here I collect my reading notes on papers in distributed systems and databases.

I focus on:

• the main ideas and contributions,
• why the problem is important, and

• what I learned that could influence how I design or evaluate systems.

• CortenMM: Efficient Memory Management with Strong Correctness Guarantees — SOSP 2025 Paper Review
  Nov 15, 2025
  A review of CortenMM, a new OS memory manager that eliminates VMA bottlenecks and enables scalable, provably correct memory operations.

• Copier: Rethinking Memory Copy as a First-Class OS Service — SOSP 2025 Paper Review
  Nov 15, 2025
  A concise overview of Copier, SOSP 2025’s asynchronous OS-level memory copy service.