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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2012
Itzhack Goldberg, Mount Carmel, IL;
Stephen Alfred Haley, Austin, TX (US);
Moriel Lechtman, Mount Carmel, IL;
Itzhack Goldberg, Mount Carmel, IL;
Stephen Alfred Haley, Austin, TX (US);
Moriel Lechtman, Mount Carmel, IL;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include receiving a storage command from a host computer to retrieve first data from a specific physical region of a storage device, and responsively retrieving second data from one or more additional physical regions of the storage device based on a logical mapping managed by the host computer. The second data is conveyed to a cache. In some embodiments, the logical mapping is received from the host computer prior to receiving the storage command. In alternative embodiments, the logical mapping is retrieved from the storage device prior to receiving the storage command.