The performance impact of kernel prefetching on buffer cache replacement algorithms

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 157-168

  Butt, Ali R ^a   Gniady, Chris ^a   Hu, Y Charlie ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffer caching; Prefetching; Replacement algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BUFFER CACHING; PREFETCHING; REPLACEMENT ALGORITHMS;

BUFFER STORAGE;

EID: 33244494252     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: 01635999     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1071690.1064231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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