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 prefet...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 616 - 632
Main Authors: Ryu, Junhee, Lee, Dongeun, Shin, Kang G., Kang, Kyungtae
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.04.2025
Subjects:
Application launch
application prefetch
disk prefetch
File systems
Linux
Metadata
Monitoring
Optimization
Parallel processing
Performance evaluation
Prefetching
Slabs
Throughput
ISSN:1045-9219, 1558-2183
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1045-9219
1558-2183
DOI:10.1109/TPDS.2024.3525337