Optimal multistream sequential prefetching in a shared cache

ACM Transactions on Storage

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Gill, Binny S ^a   Bathen, Luis Angel D ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive prefetching; Asynchronous prefetching; Cache pollution; Degree of prefetch; Fixed prefetching; Multistream read; Optimal prefetching; Prefetch wastage; Prestaging; Sequential prefetching; Synchronous prefetching; Trigger distance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PREFETCHING; ASYNCHRONOUS PREFETCHING; CACHE POLLUTION; DEGREE OF PREFETCH; FIXED PREFETCHING; MULTISTREAM READ; OPTIMAL PREFETCHING; PREFETCH WASTAGE; PRESTAGING; SEQUENTIAL PREFETCHING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; VIDEO ON DEMAND;

BUFFER STORAGE;

EID: 36049042568     PISSN: 15533077     EISSN: 15533093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1288783.1288789     Document Type: Article

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