I have spent almost the entire last decade in a fairly specialized product company, building high performance I/O systems. I had the opportunity to see storage technology evolve rapidly and decisively. Talking about storage and its developments felt like preaching to the choir.

Scheduling requests of any kind always serves one purpose — gain control over priorities of those requests. In the priorities-less system one doesn’t need to schedule; just putting whatever arrives into the queue and waiting when it finishes is enough.

Many of us have heard of Coordinated Omission (CO), but few understand what it means, how to mitigate the problem, and why anyone should bother. Or, perhaps, this is the first time you have heard of the term. So let’s begin with a definition of what it is and why you should be concerned about it in your benchmarking.