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Design and Implementation of a Predictive File Prefetching Algorithm

Thomas M. Kroeger¹
Nokia Cluster IP Solutions
Santa Cruz, California
- Darrell D. E. Long²
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Modeling Background
  • Context Modeling
  • Partitioned Context Modeling (PCM)
  • Extended PCM (EPCM)
• Implementation
  • The Linux Kernel's VFS Layer
• Evaluating Predictive Prefetching
  • Measuring Predictive Prefetching
  • Andrew Benchmark
    • Characterizing the Workload
    • Initial Results
    • EPCM Results
  • Linking the Linux Kernel
  • Glimpse Indexing
  • Patching and Building SSH
  • Training with Multiple Patterns
  • Analysis of Results
• Related Work
• Future Work
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• About this document ...