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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2011
Deanna Postles Dunn, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Robert J. Sonnelitter, Iii, Wappinger Falls, WA (US);
Gary E. Strait, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Deanna Postles Dunn, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Robert J. Sonnelitter, III, Wappinger Falls, WA (US);
Gary E. Strait, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for merging data including receiving a request from an input/output device to merge a data, wherein a merge of the data includes a manipulation of the data, determining that the data exists in a local cache memory that is in local communication with the input/output device, fetching the data to the local cache memory from a remote cache memory or a main memory if the data does not exist in the local cache memory, merging the data according to the request to obtain a merged data, and storing the merged data in the local cache, wherein the merging of the data is performed without using a memory controller within a control flow or a data flow of the merging of the data.