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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
May. 15, 2019
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Xiangping Chen, Sherborn, MA (US);
Svetlana Kronrod, Concord, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory, with the processing device being configured to maintain at least first and second journals for respective first and second different types of input-output requests, to move one or more entries between the first journal and the second journal under one or more specified conditions, to perform a clean-up operation for at least one of the first and second journals in conjunction with the moving of the one or more entries, and responsive to a failure occurring during the clean-up operation, to execute a contention resolution algorithm to resolve logical address range lock contentions between different entries of the first and second journals. The processing device illustratively comprises a storage controller of a storage system. The storage system may be, for example, a source storage system configured to carry out a synchronous replication process with a target storage system.