Hello Satya,

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 08:19:41AM -0500, Mahadev Satyanarayanan wrote:
> We regularly assign a class project that modifies Venus to perform
> prefectching.   Here is the most recent version of the project.

Oh nice!

It would be exciting to hear if the students have found a certain class of
situations (file data access rate vs bandwidth vs cache size vs average
file length and similar) and corresponding algorithms where prefetching
would be consistently superior?

I am pessimistic but it is only the actual tests and measurements who can show
the answer.

Regards,
Rune