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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2009
Brian Bass, Apex, NC (US);
Giora Biran, Zichron-Yaakov, IL;
Hubertus Franke, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Amit Golander, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Hao Yu, Valhalla, NY (US);
Brian Bass, Apex, NC (US);
Giora Biran, Zichron-Yaakov, IL;
Hubertus Franke, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Amit Golander, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Hao Yu, Valhalla, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Techniques for replacing one or more blocks in a cache, the one or more blocks being associated with a plurality of data streams, are provided. The one or more blocks in the cache are grouped into one or more groups, each corresponding to one of the plurality of data streams. One or more incoming blocks are received. To free space, the one or more blocks of the one or more groups in the cache are invalidated in accordance with at least one of an inactivity of a given data stream corresponding to the one or more groups and a length of the one or more groups. The one or more incoming blocks are stored in the cache. A number of data streams maintained within the cache is maximized.