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Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012

Filed:

Jan. 12, 2010
Applicants:

Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Mustafa Canim, Dallas, TX (US);

Christian A. Lang, Hawthorne, NY (US);

George A. Mihaila, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Kenneth A. Ross, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Inventors:

Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Mustafa Canim, Dallas, TX (US);

Christian A. Lang, Hawthorne, NY (US);

George A. Mihaila, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Kenneth A. Ross, Hawthorne, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method for managing a cache includes monitoring a temperature of regions on a secondary storage based on a cumulative cost to access pages from each region of the secondary storage. Similar temperature pages are grouped in logical blocks. Data is written to a cache in a logical block granularity by overwriting cooler blocks with hotter blocks.


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