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Reducing File System Latency using a Predictive Approach

Authors: 

Jim Griffioen, Randy Appleton, University of Kentucky

Abstract: 

Despite impressive advances in file system throughput resulting from technologies such as high-bandwidth networks and disk arrays, file sys- tem latency has not improved and in many cases has become worse. Consequently, file system I/O remains one of the major bottlenecks to operating system performance[10].

This paper investigates an automated predic- tive approach towards reducing file latency. Automatic Prefetching uses past file accesses to predict future file system requests. The objec- tive is to provide data in advance of the request for the data, effectively masking access laten- cies. We have designed and implement a system to measure the performance benefits of automatic pre- fetching. Our current results, obtained from a trace-driven simulation, show that prefetching results in as much as a 280% improvement over LRU especially for smaller caches. Alternatively, prefetching can reduce cache size by up to 50%.

Jim Griffioen, University of Kentucky

Randy Appleton, University of Kentucky

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Paper: 
http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/full_papers/griffioen.ps
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