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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2006
Richard L. Coulson, Portland, OR (US);
Sanjeev N. Trika, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Jeanna N. Matthews, Massena, NY (US);
Robert W. Faber, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Richard L. Coulson, Portland, OR (US);
Sanjeev N. Trika, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Jeanna N. Matthews, Massena, NY (US);
Robert W. Faber, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for maintaining a sequence of writes into a disk cache, where the writes correspond to disk write requests stored in the disk cache, and ordering cache writes from the disk cache to a disk drive according to the sequence of writes. In this way, write ordering from an operating system to a disk subsystem is maintained. Other embodiments are described and claimed.