Prefetching Policy based on File Acess Pattern and Cache Area
Jae Deok Lim, Jun Hyoung Hwangbo, Kwang Sik Koh, Dae-Wha Seo · The KIPS Transactions PartA · 2001
Various caching and prefetching algorithms have been investigated to identify and effective method for improving the performance of I/O devices. A prefetching algorithm decreases the processing time of a system by reducing the number of disk accesses when an I/O is needed. This paper proposes an AMBA prefetching method that is an extended version of the OBA prefetching method. The AMBA prefetching method will prefetching blocks continuously as long as disk bandwidth is enough. In this method, though there were excessive data request rate, we would expect efficient prefetching. And in the AMBA prefetching method, to prevent the cache pollution, it limits the number of data blocks to be prefetched within the cache area. It can be implemented in a user-level File System based on a Linux Operating System. In particular, the proposed prefetching policy improves the system performance by about 30∼40% for large files that are accessed sequentially.