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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2016
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Timothy R. Feldman, Louisville, CO (US);
Andy Kowles, Lyons, CO (US);
Assignee:
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0871 (2016.01); G06F 12/0895 (2016.01); G06F 12/0846 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0871 (2013.01); G06F 12/0848 (2013.01); G06F 12/0895 (2013.01); G06F 2212/224 (2013.01); G06F 2212/604 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6046 (2013.01);
Abstract
Implementations disclosed herein provide a method comprising determining a workload on a disk cache with a storage device controller, determining a state of a free pool of the disk cache, receiving a data write request to the disk cache, segregating the free pool of the disk cache into a plurality of allocation units, allocating the plurality of allocation units out of order, as compared to a physical arrangement order of the allocation units in the disk cache, based on the workload, and storing data in the plurality of allocation units.