The performance impact of kernel prefetching on buffer cache replacement algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 889-908

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

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

File systems management; Measurements; Metrics measurement; Operating systems; Operating systems performance; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER OPERATING PROCEDURES; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; FILE ORGANIZATION; OPTIMIZATION;

BUFFER CACHING; FILE SYSTEM PREFETCHING; FILE SYTEMS MANAGEMENT; KERNEL PREFETCHING; OPERATING SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE;

BUFFER STORAGE;

EID: 34547859595     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2007.1029     Document Type: Article

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