FAST '23 - Fast Application Launch on Personal Computing/Communication Devices

Fast Application Launch on Personal Computing/Communication Devices

Junhee Ryu, SK hynix; Dongeun Lee, Texas A&M University - Commerce; Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan; Kyungtae Kang, Hanyang University

We present Paralfetch, a novel prefetcher to speed up app launches on personal computing/communication devices by: 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 app execution with disk prefetching for hiding disk access time from the app execution. …

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