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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2019
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Wei, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Maithem Munshed, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Anny Martinez Manzanilla, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Zeeshan Altaf Lokhandwala, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Saeed A Behnam, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Medhavi Dhawan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Dahlia Malkhi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A log unit provides a shared log for recording updates on data objects. Garbage collection is performed locally and in-place by the log unit. In a marking portion of the garbage collection process, the log unit identifies and marks log entries that record mergeable updates. In a deallocation portion of the process, the log unit merges one or more mergeable log entries and deallocates at least portions of the merged log entries.