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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2025
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Lixin Pang, Needham, MA (US);
Rong Yu, West Roxbury, MA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for use in a storage system, including: selecting one or more front-end (FE) tracks that are arranged to cache data associated with one or more write requests; selecting a given one of a plurality of buckets in an aging queue as a recipient for the FE tracks, the given bucket being selected based on one or more characteristics of the FE tracks; placing the FE tracks in the given bucket; updating an aging time for the given bucket; waiting until an age of the FE tracks is greater than the aging time of the aging queue, and placing the one or more FE tracks in a write commit queue after the age of the FE tracks has become greater than the aging time of the aging queue; and completing the write requests after one or more FE tracks have been placed in the write commit queue.