[Hotstorage-chairs] [EXTERNAL] [HotStorage 2026] HotStorage’26 Camera-Ready Instructions

Wed Aug 5 13:39:42 EDT 2026

Hello Bryan,

Thank you so much for your email and interest in our work.

We've checked both authors against the CFP's COI definitions and the current PC/reviewer list, and found no conflicts (no co-authorship, shared institution, or advisor/advisee relationship). Happy to provide any information to verify independently.

Below are the planned updates to the revised paper, incorporating feedback from multiple reviewers to make it more complete.

  1.  Add comparisons within the CXL baseline using the same expander, study driver-assisted CXL-GPU memory tiering alternatives (including LMB-style and DAX-based approaches), and measure host DRAM bandwidth contention as a trade-off metric.
  2.  add kvcache end-to-end LLM inference measurement using our target framework.
  3.  Add software implementation details, including how the kernel driver communicates with the hardware and the CPU overhead of descriptor processing, and clarify that the DMA controller is a real ASIC in our CXL expander.
  4.
Add more references, and expand on claims, introduction background and other sections.
  5.
Revise the Discussion and Related Work sections (title and/or content) and include varying queue-depth results and additional trade-off metrics if space permits.
  6.
comparison against a flash-backed or host DRAM staging tier if feasible, or otherwise discuss it explicitly — including how a CXL-Flash variant would behave given that the DMA-P2P mechanism is media-agnostic, and what the picture looks like on a cost-normalized basis.

Thanks & Regards,
VSR

From: Bryan S. Kim <bkim01 at syr.edu>
Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
To: Veerasenareddy Burru <vburru at marvell.com>; Alok Prasad <palok at marvell.com>; Pradeep Kumar Nalla <pnalla at marvell.com>; Satananda Burla <sburla at marvell.com>
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Dear authors of paper #241,

Thank you for providing me with more details. I am also looping in Eunji Lee, the shepherd for your paper.

I would again like to emphasize that we generally do not allow post-acceptance authorship changes. There are two points I would like to discuss.

First, although you have provided the ORCIDs of those you would like to add and what they will do, your description does not provide the evidence that the additions do not affect the conflict-of-interest declaration. Without thoroughly checking this, adding authors after the reviews are done undermines the peer review process. Please review the definitions for conflicts in our Call For Papers<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.hotstorage.org_2026_cfp.html&d=DwMGaQ&c=nKjWec2b6R0mOyPaz7xtfQ&r=XkP_75lnbPIeeucsPX36ZgjiMqEKttwZfwNyWMCLjT0&m=J4t6z4uaYCaQjQxx3bWC6wp29w2in3p3F8eQWgqfOOewTQouccttjUIibARn7Lwq&s=78JrLk5ccAl96WWKhvqYWPYpbO00c906kqWAaC9d-bI&e=>.

Second, the amount of change between the submission and the camera-ready version is not expected to be substantial enough that it requires additional authors. New experiments may be included, but if the original set of authors cannot perform this, the planned work may be too much. Please share with me the planned revision that you have sent to your shepherd for me to review.

I appreciate your submission, and I think that the attendees of HotStorage would find your work quite interesting. However, as the co-chair of the program committee, I need to ensure the integrity of the peer review process and adherence to the ACM authorship policies.

Thank you.
-Bryan S. Kim

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From: Veerasenareddy Burru <vburru at marvell.com>
Sent: Monday, August 3, 2026 23:37
To: Bryan S. Kim <bkim01 at syr.edu>; Alok Prasad <palok at marvell.com>; Pradeep Kumar Nalla <pnalla at marvell.com>
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] [HotStorage 2026] HotStorage’26 Camera-Ready Instructions

Hello Bryan,

Thank you for the guidance.

Regarding adding new authors: we need to do substantial new experimental work for camera-ready, specifically new CXL-baseline tiering comparisons (LMB-style/DAX-based, with host-DRAM contention measurements) and KV-cache LLM inference measurements on real workloads, both requiring hands-on expertise. Given the short time we have, we need to consult other team members who are experts in these areas to integrate and test our work. Gaurav Agarwal (ORCID: 0009-0008-4534-3898) is designing and running the CXL-baseline/tiering comparisons and co-authoring that analysis, and Michal Kalderon (0009-0007-2867-302X) is designing and running the KV-cache inference measurements and co-authoring those results — both are generating and interpreting new data driving the revision, not just providing infrastructure support.

Happy to share further contribution details if helpful.

Thanks & Regards,
VSR

From: Bryan S. Kim <bkim01 at syr.edu>
Date: Monday, August 3, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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Dear Veerasenareddy,

This is something that I should chime in as one of the program co-chairs.

We generally do not allow post-acceptance authorship changes, as doing so undermines the review process and conflict-of-interest (COI) declarations. Even if there are no COI concerns, I recommend that you review the ACM authorship policy<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.acm.org_publications_policies_new-2Dacm-2Dpolicy-2Don-2Dauthorship&d=DwMGaQ&c=nKjWec2b6R0mOyPaz7xtfQ&r=XkP_75lnbPIeeucsPX36ZgjiMqEKttwZfwNyWMCLjT0&m=Zr0F3ekmmyvVjvznzo76UNtmpX2IFxPBxfVp_dJn4xlowNksYbRSdfUlEeNQTRtt&s=4ezaHOQ2rhDRyKDzfUozY6Wb_BrDDJg-9IM4bkvvoH0&e=> and consider whether the added work for the camera-ready version warrants authorship.

More specifically, as stated in the ACM authorship policy, authors must "have made substantial and demonstrable intellectual contributions." If you think the authorship change is necessary, please reply with a detailed explanation as stated in our CFP.
Post-acceptance authorship change undermines the review process and the conflict-of-interest declarations. For authorship changes after acceptance, the authors must provide evidence that the change complies with the ACM authorship policy and does not affect conflict-of-interest declarations, along with a detailed explanation to the PC chairs about why the authorship change is necessary.
-Bryan S. Kim

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Sent: Monday, August 3, 2026 12:41
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Subject: Re: [Hotstorage-chairs] [EXTERNAL] [HotStorage 2026] HotStorage’26 Camera-Ready Instructions

Hi Chenhao,

I have received the email with link to publishing process that includes eRights form.

To address the feedback from reviewers and update the paper, we have couple of additional authors who are contributing to the camera ready version.

Can you please let us know if we can add two additional authors to the final version of the paper ?

Thanks & Regards,
VSR

From: Chenhao Ye <chenhaoy at cs.wisc.edu>
Date: Monday, August 3, 2026 at 9:05 AM
To: Alok Prasad <palok at marvell.com>
Cc: Pradeep Kumar Nalla <pnalla at marvell.com>; Veerasenareddy Burru <vburru at marvell.com>; chairs26 at hotstorage.org <chairs26 at hotstorage.org>; duo.zhang at sk.com <duo.zhang at sk.com>
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Hi Alok,

I just resent the email. As a note, ACM by default only sent the eRights form to the corresponding author. In your case, it should be sent to Veerasenareddy Burru. Please let us know if you still cannot find the email.

Thanks,
Chenhao

From: Alok Prasad <palok at marvell.com>
Date: Monday, August 3, 2026 at 03:59
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Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] [HotStorage 2026] HotStorage’26 Camera-Ready Instructions

Hi ,

we didn’t received any email regarding ACM eRights forms can you plesae resend .

Thanks,

Alok

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Dear authors,

Congratulations again on the acceptance of your paper to HotStorage’26!

Please follow the instructions below when preparing your camera-ready

submission. *We highly recommend completing the eRights Form (action #2)

as soon as possible, as it takes time for ACM Digital Library to process

it before you can submit the final paper.*

The camera-ready deadline is **Wednesday, August 12, 2026, Anywhere on

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