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Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Rahul Balani, Bangalore, IN;

Sujesha Sudevalayam, Bangalore, IN;

Akshat Verma, Bangalore, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0866 (2013.01); G06F 3/0641 (2013.01); G06F 17/30156 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for input/output de-duplication based on variable-size chunks. A method includes partitioning virtual block data into multiple variable-sized chunks, caching each of the multiple variable-sized chunks in a chunk cache according to content of each of the multiple variable-sized chunks, initializing virtual block-to-chunk mapping and chunk-to-physical block mapping for each of the multiple variable-sized chunks, and detecting duplicate disk input and/or output requests across multiple hosts based on content-based mappings of the input and/or output requests to the chunk cache and the virtual block-to-chunk mapping and chunk-to-physical block mapping for each of the multiple variable-sized chunks in the chunk cache.


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