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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Roman Talyansky, Haifa, IL;
Boaz Shmueli, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/206 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/206 ;
Abstract
A technique for asynchronous computer disk cache management reduces the burstiness of disk I/O. It provides a periodic sync process to flush modified buffers, wherein only buffers exceeding a threshold age are selected to be flushed. In one variant the sync process only executes when the number of modified buffers in the cache exceeds a threshold, which can be dynamically adapted to changing patterns of cache usage. The age of the dirty buffers is measured by sync periods to minimize time computation. In some embodiments an additional cleaning process flushes old buffers between sync invocations.