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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2017
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Asit Desai, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Prasanna Aithal, Bangalore, IN;
Bryan Branstetter, Berkeley, CA (US);
Rohan Pasalkar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Prasad Rao Jangam, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mahesh S Hiregoudar, Bangalore, IN;
Pradeep Krishnamurthy, Bangalore, IN;
Srinivasa Shantharam, Bangalore, IN;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The systems described herein are configured to enhance the efficiency of memory usage and access in a VM file system data store with respect to allocating memory in large and small file block clusters using affinity metadata and propagating and maintaining the affinity metadata in support of the described allocation. During storage of file data, an affinity identifier of the file data is determined. The affinity identifier is used to identify a large file block cluster and a small file block cluster within the identified large file block cluster. The file data is stored in the selected small file block cluster and affinity metadata of the selected small file block cluster is updated to reflect the storage of the file data.