Reducing operating system start-up/boot time through disk block

Details Reducing operating system start-up/boot time through disk block Reducing operating system start-up/boot time through disk block

1997-03-21

1999-07-06

Chan, Eddie P.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Control technique

711163, 711167, 711156, 711170, 395651, G06F 1200

Patent

active

059208961

ABSTRACT:
A computer system is equipped with an operating system having a tracer driver for generating trace data including disk locations accessed for disk accesses made by various components of the operating system during system startup/boot time. The tracer driver is loaded at an initial phase of system start-up. The computer system is further equipped with a companion disk block relocation driver for generating, if possible, an alternative disk block allocation for a current disk block allocation that will yield improved overall access time for a sequence of disk accesses. In some embodiments, the disk block relocation driver includes logic for tracing the sequence of disk accesses to determine the current disk block allocation, logic for generating the alternative disk block allocation, if possible, using the trace results, and logic for effectuating the alternate disk block allocation, if generated. In one particular embodiment, the logic for generating the alternative disk block allocation employs a random search approach, while in another embodiment, the logic for generating the alternative disk block allocation employs a heuristic approach.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5787296 (1998-07-01), Grimsrud et al.
patent: 5802593 (1998-09-01), Grimsrud et al.

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