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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Hopkinton, MA (US);
Vamsi K. Vankamamidi, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Ajay Karri, South Grafton, MA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
In at least one embodiment, processing can include: recording write operations as entries in a log; flushing the entries from the log, said flushing including persistently storing, on non-volatile storage, content written by the write operations; responsive to determining a system has a current workload below a specified workload threshold, performing first processing including: determining a first minimum number of free blocks of the non-volatile storage based on: i) an average number of free blocks expected to be consumed in connection with flushing the log in each time interval, ii) a constant, and iii) a second minimum number of blocks denoting an upper bound of a number of blocks of the non-volatile storage consumed by flushing the log in each time interval; and responsive to determining that a current number of free blocks is less than the first minimum number, performing garbage collection processing on the non-volatile storage.