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摘要
Paralfetch 通过以下方式加快个人计算/通信设备上应用程序的启动速度:1)准确收集与启动相关的磁盘读取请求;2)预先安排这些请求,以提高预取期间的 I/O 吞吐量;3)将应用程序的执行与磁盘预取重叠,以隐藏应用程序执行过程中的磁盘访问时间。我们在台式机/笔记本电脑、Raspberry Pi 3 电路板和安卓智能手机的 Linux 内核下实现了 Paralfetch。使用流行应用进行的测试表明,Paralfetch 显著缩短了闪存驱动器和硬盘驱动器上的应用启动时间,其性能优于 GSoC Prefetch Lichota 等人,2007 年;FAST Joo 等人,2011 年。
Paralfetch: Fast Application Launch on Personal Computing/Communication Devices
Paralfetch speeds up application launches on personal computing/communication devices, by means of: 1) accurate collection of launch-related disk read requests, 2) pre-scheduling of these requests to improve I/O throughput during prefetching, and 3) overlapping application execution with disk prefetching for hiding disk access time from the execution of the application. We implemented Paralfetch under Linux kernels on a desktop/laptop PC, a Raspberry Pi 3 board, and an Android smartphone. Tests with popular applications show that Paralfetch significantly reduces application launch times on flash-based drives and hard disk drives, and it outperforms GSoC Prefetch Lichota et al. 2007 and FAST Joo et al. 2011, which are representative application prefetchers available for Linux-based systems.
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