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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Alexander Shknevsky, Fair Lawn, NJ (US);
Uri Shabi, Tel Mond, IL;
Vamsi K. Vankamamidi, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of managing end-of-life processing of data blocks includes performing a decref procedure for a chunk of data, the decref procedure decrementing reference counts for respective blocks of the chunk of data, and deferring performance of an end-of-life procedure for a plurality of blocks of the chunk of data whose reference counts become zero as a result of performing the decref procedure. The method further includes, upon performing a data consolidation procedure after performing the decref procedure, performing the end-of-life procedure on the plurality of blocks.