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Improved prefetching for swapping applications

Although the basic design discussed in the previous section works well for explicit-I/O applications, it can hurt the performance of applications that exploit virtual memory. In this section, we discuss two simple additions to standard operating system mechanisms which can greatly improve prefetching performance for memory-intensive applications.



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