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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2020
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Boris Glimcher, Bnei Brak, IL;
Amitai Alkalay, Kadima, IL;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
An aspect includes providing a scratchpad memory to at least one persistent storage device of a plurality of persistent storage devices in a storage array. The scratchpad memory includes non-volatile storage. An aspect also includes designating the scratchpad memory for storing data corresponding to write operations implemented by a storage system, apportioning the scratchpad memory among each storage controller of a plurality of storage controllers in the storage system, and receiving, at the scratchpad memory, a write request from one of the storage controllers. An aspect further includes writing data of the write request to a location in the scratchpad memory based on the apportioning and corresponding to the one of the storage controllers.