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Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2016
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Pratap Subrahmanyam, Saratoga, CA (US);

Zongwei Zhou, Mountain View, CA (US);

Xavier Deguillard, Orsay, FR;

Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/30 (2019.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1474 (2013.01); G06F 16/2365 (2019.01); G06F 16/2379 (2019.01);
Abstract

Techniques for using micro-journals to ensure crash consistency of a transactional application are provided. In one embodiment, a computer system can receive a transaction associated with the transactional application, where the transaction includes a plurality of modifications to data or metadata of the transactional application. The computer system can further select a free micro-journal from a pool of micro-journals, where the pool of micro-journals are stored in a byte-addressable persistent memory of the computer system, and where each micro-journal in the pool is configured to record journal entries for a single transaction at a time. The computer system can then write journal entries into the micro-journal corresponding to the plurality of modifications included in the transaction and commit the journal entries to the byte-addressable persistent memory.


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