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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2011
Vikram Joshi, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Yang Luan, San Jose, CA (US);
Manish R. Apte, San Jose, CA (US);
Hrishikesh A. Vidwans, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael F. Brown, Arlington, MA (US);
Vikram Joshi, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Yang Luan, San Jose, CA (US);
Manish R. Apte, San Jose, CA (US);
Hrishikesh A. Vidwans, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael F. Brown, Arlington, MA (US);
Intellectual Property Holdings 2 LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for managing data input/output operations are described. In one aspect, a device driver identifies a data read operation generated by a virtual machine in a virtual environment. The device driver is located in the virtual machine and the data read operation identifies a physical cache address associated with the data requested in the data read operation. A determination is made regarding whether data associated with the data read operation is available in a cache associated with the virtual machine.