System and method for handling data access

摘要

A method for handling speculative access requests for a storage device in a computer system is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a speculative access threshold corresponding to a selected percentage of the total number of accesses to be speculatively issued, and intermixing demand accesses and speculative accesses in accordance with the speculative access threshold. In another embodiment, a method for reducing data access latency experienced by a user in a computer network is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a web page comprising a link to a data file stored on a database connected to the computer network, selecting a speculative access threshold corresponding to a selected percentage of data accesses which are to be speculatively provided to the user, and speculatively providing the data file in accordance with the speculative access threshold.

主权项

1. A method for handling speculative access requests for a storage device in a computer system comprising the steps of:
providing a speculative access threshold corresponding to a selected percentage of a total number of accesses to be speculatively issued, wherein said speculative access threshold is determined by an equation using one or more of the following: a system access request rate and a percentage of access requests that do not have valid cached data available and require data from the storage device; and intermixing demand accesses and speculative accesses in accordance with the speculative access threshold.