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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2006
Mohamad H. El-batal, Westminster, CO (US);
Charles E. Nichols, Wichita, KS (US);
John V. Sherman, Derby, KS (US);
Keith W. Holt, Wichita, KS (US);
Jason M. Stuhlsatz, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Mohamad H. El-Batal, Westminster, CO (US);
Charles E. Nichols, Wichita, KS (US);
John V. Sherman, Derby, KS (US);
Keith W. Holt, Wichita, KS (US);
Jason M. Stuhlsatz, Alpharetta, GA (US);
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for offloading a cache memory is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) reading all of a plurality of cache lines from the cache memory in response to an assertion of a signal to offload of the cache memory, (B) generating a plurality of blocks by dividing the cache lines in accordance with a RAID configuration and (C) writing the blocks among a plurality of nonvolatile memories in the RAID configuration, wherein each of the nonvolatile memories has a write bandwidth less than a read bandwidth of the cache memory.