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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2020
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Xinlei Xu, Beijing, CN;
Jian Gao, Beijing, CN;
Yousheng Liu, Beijing, CN;
Changyu Feng, Beijing, CN;
Geng Han, Beijing, CN;
EMC IP Holding Company, LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for managing a buffer device in a storage system. The method comprising determining a first priority for a first queue included in the buffer device, the first queue comprising at least one data page associated with a first storage device in the storage system; in at least one round, in response to the first priority not satisfying a first predetermined condition, updating the first priority according to a first updating rule, the first updating rule making the updated first priority much closer to the first predetermined condition than the first priority; and in response to the first priority satisfying the first predetermined condition, flushing data in a data page in the first queue to the first storage device.