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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2018
Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited, Singapore, SG;
Horia Simionescu, Foster City, CA (US);
Timothy Hoglund, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Sridhar Rao Veerla, Bangalore, IN;
Panthini Pandit, Bangalore, IN;
Gowrisankar Radhakrishnan, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED, Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A system and method for efficient cache flushing are provided. The disclosed method includes maintaining a data structure in connection with a plurality of blocks used for data caching, the data structure including a row lock wait list section. The method further includes receiving an Input/Output (I/O) request, performing a hash search for the I/O request against the data structure, and based on the results of the hash search, locking at least one row in a data cache thereby preventing read and write operations from being performed on the at least one row until the at least one row is unlocked.