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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2017
Veritas Technologies Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Veritas Technologies LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for distributing cache space may include (i) identifying workloads that make input/output requests to a storage system that comprises a cache that stores a copy of data recently written to the storage system, (ii) calculating a proportion of the cache that is occupied by data written to the cache by a workload, (iii) determining that the proportion of the cache that is occupied by the data written to the cache by the workload is disproportionate, and (iv) limiting the volume of input/output requests from workload that will be accepted by the storage system in response to determining that the proportion of the cache that is occupied by the data written to the cache by the workload is disproportionate. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.