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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Aayush Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
James L. Hafner, Pacific Grove, CA (US);
Mohit Saxena, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes selecting a cache block descriptor (CBD) from amongst a plurality of CBDs stored to a cache storage device to defragment based on a determination of utilization of a particular fine block descriptor (FBD) having a first size that is allocated to the selected CBD. The cache storage device includes a free pool of FBDs having various sizes that is available for use in the plurality of CBDs. Also, the particular FBD having the first size has a lowest availability in the free pool of FBDs. Other methods, systems, and computer program products are described in accordance with additional embodiments.