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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2019
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Tipper Truong, San Jose, CA (US);
Mariah Arevalo, Woodland, CA (US);
Philip Shilane, Newtown, PA (US);
Kimberly R. Lu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Joseph S. Brandt, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Nicholas A. Noto, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods enabling garbage collection operations and normal system operations concurrently. Concurrent operations are performed by configuring a similarity group to permit garbage collection and normal operations. This may include creating a new subgroup in a similarity group for write and deduplication purposes such that an impacted subgroup can be cleaned.