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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020

Filed:

May. 21, 2018
Applicant:

Scaleflux, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Qi Wu, San Jose, CA (US);

Qing Li, San Jose, CA (US);

Jiangpeng Li, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

SCALEFLUX, INC, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/1018 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0638 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0614 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/1018 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7202 (2013.01);
Abstract

A storage infrastructure and method for efficiently handing block I/O requests. An infrastructure is described that includes flash memory and a controller that includes: a two dimensional (2D) linked list structure for temporarily storing BIO requests, wherein each BIO request specifies a set of LBAs and wherein the 2D linked list structure includes N vertical linked lists; a BIO request loader that applies a hash function to each LBA in a received BIO request to associate each LBA to one of N hash values, and loads the received BIO request into a horizontal linked list in the 2D linked list structure in which each LBA resides within a vertical linked list based on an associated hash values; and a linked list manager that determines which LBAs in the 2D linked list structure are eligible for processing and when a horizontal linked list can be removed.


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