The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Hopkinton, MA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
In at least one embodiment, processing can include acquiring a spinlock on a cached copy of a metadata (MD) page includes a field stored in two cache lines; updating a register to include an updated value of the field; determining whether a first portion of the updated value of the register is non-zero, wherein two portions of the updated value of the field as stored in the register correspond to the two cache lines; and responsive to determining that the first portion of the updated value of the register is non-zero, performing processing including: storing the first portion of the updated value of the field from the register in the first cache line; and subsequent to performing storing the first portion, storing the second portion of the updated value of the field as stored in the register in the second cache line.