This kernel patch contains bug fix #1, which fixes the Linux file system prefetching anomaly, described in the paper. This patch is for Linux 2.6.10. It can be applied to the original kernel code with the following command.

[linux]$ patch -p1 < this_patch

To enable this fix, the configuration option "CONFIG_READAHEAD_CONGFIX" need to be set on when compiling the kernel.

Click here to download the patch.