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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Earl Medeiros, Fall River, MA (US);
Ramesh Doddaiah, Westborough, MA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for use in a storage processor, comprising: receiving an I/O request that is associated with a logical block address; allocating a cache slot that corresponds to the logical block address, wherein allocating the cache slot includes: identifying a type of memory that is required to host the cache slot by using one or more configuration settings that are associated with the cache slot, identifying a cache slot that is both available and hosted in the identified type of memory, and assigning the identified cache slot to the logical block address; and executing the I/O request by using the allocated cache slot, wherein using the allocated cache slot includes identifying a memory address that is associated with the cache slot and executing at least one direct memory access (DMA) command that is associated with the allocated cache slot.