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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2021
Applicant:
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Rohit Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
Pradeep Kashyap Ramaswamy, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
NUTANIX, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/023 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 16/2246 (2019.01); G06F 16/9027 (2019.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various embodiments set forth techniques for free space management in a block store. The techniques include receiving a request to allocate one or more blocks in a block store, accessing a sparse hierarchical data structure to identify an allocator page identifying a region of a backing store having a greatest number of free blocks, and allocating the one or more blocks.