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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2020
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A host system may be cache-slot aware such that the host system can distribute IOs to processing nodes on a storage system according to cache slot boundaries. A multi-path driver of the host system may determine the cache slot size from one or more communications exchanged with the storage system. The multi-path driver may transition between processing nodes according to slot cache slot boundaries. For IO operations having data portions smaller than the cache slot size, the MP driver may direct multiple IO operations to a same processing node until the collective size of data portions fills a cache slot. For IO operations having a data portion larger than the cache slot, the MP driver may divide the IO operation into sequential IO operations having data portions of a same size as a cache slot, and may transition between processing nodes for each IO operation or a multiple thereof.