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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2018
Netapp Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Deepak Raghu Kenchammana-Hosekote, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael R. Eisler, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arthur F. Lent, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rahul Iyer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shravan Gaonkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NetApp Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
I/O bandwidth reduction using storage-level common page information is implemented by a storage server, in response to receiving a request from a client for a page stored at a first virtual address, determining that the first virtual address maps to a page that is a duplicate of a page stored at a second virtual address or that the first and second virtual addresses map to a deduplicated page within a storage system, and transmitting metadata to the client mapping the first virtual address to a second virtual address that also maps to the deduplicated page. For one embodiment, the metadata is transmitted in anticipation of a request for the redundant/deduplicated page via the second virtual address. For an alternate embodiment, the metadata is sent in response to a determination that a page that maps to the second virtual address was previously sent to the client.