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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2006
Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Tucson, AZ (US);
Kenneth Fairclough Day, Iii, Tucson, AZ (US);
David Allan Pease, Redwood Estates, CA (US);
John Jay Wolfgang, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Tucson, AZ (US);
Kenneth Fairclough Day, III, Tucson, AZ (US);
David Allan Pease, Redwood Estates, CA (US);
John Jay Wolfgang, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for determining prefetch data. A start module communicates a start of a target software process to a storage device. A learning module learns data blocks accessed for the target software process. In one embodiment, a prefetch module prefetches the learned data blocks in response to the start of the target software process. An end module communicates the end of the target software process to the storage device. In one embodiment, the prefetch module terminates prefetching data blocks and the learning module terminates learning the data blocks accessed for the target software process in response to the end module's communication of the end of the target software process.