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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2016
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William P. Delaney, Wichita, KS (US);
Joseph Blount, Wichita, KS (US);
Charles Binford, Wichita, KS (US);
Joseph Moore, Wichita, KS (US);
Randolph Sterns, Boulder, CO (US);
Jeff Stilger, Wichita, KS (US);
NETAPP, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for mapping a first address space to a second address space is provided. In some embodiments, the method includes creating a first array of lookup entries and one or more second arrays of metadata entries for maintaining an ordering among the lookup entries using a tree structure. Each of the metadata entries includes one or more data index values identifying a corresponding one of the lookup entries by its position in the first array and one or more metadata index values identifying a corresponding one of the metadata entries by its position in one of the one or more second arrays. The method further includes receiving a request including a lookup value, traversing the tree structure to locate a lookup entry corresponding to the lookup value, and when the lookup value is located among the lookup entries, using the located lookup entry to process the request.