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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2018
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abhishek Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rob T. Johnson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Srinath Premachandran, Fremont, CA (US);
Richard P. Spillane, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sandeep Rangaswamy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jorge Guerra Delgado, Fremont, CA (US);
Kapil Chowksey, Cupertino, CA (US);
Wenguang Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include a file system process obtaining locks on a first node and a second node in a tree structure, with the second node being a child node of the first node. The file system process determines a quantity of child nodes of the second. While holding the locks on the first and second nodes, the file system determines whether to proactively split or merge the second node. In response to determining that the quantity of child nodes is within a first range, the file system process splits the second node. If the file system process determines that the quantity of child nodes is within a second range, the file system process merges the second node.