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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2017
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mahmoud K. Jibbe, Wichita, KS (US);
Dean Lang, Wichita, KS (US);
Scott Terrill, Wichita, KS (US);
Matthew Buller, Wichita, KS (US);
Jeffery Fowler, Wichita, KS (US);
NETAPP, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods that select a cache flushing algorithm are provided. A stripe that spans multiple storage devices and includes a plurality of segments is provided. The stripe also includes dirty data stored in a picket-fence pattern in at least a subset of segments in the plurality of segments. A memory cache that stores data separately from the plurality of storage devices and a metadata cache that stores metadata associated with the dirty data are also provided. A cache flushing algorithm is selected using the metadata. The selected cache flushing algorithm flushes data from the memory cache to the stripe.