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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2014
Applicant:

Lsi Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/16 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1666 (2013.01); G06F 11/20 (2013.01); G06F 12/0802 (2013.01); G06F 12/0866 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods presented herein provide for redundancy in I/O caching. In one embodiment, a storage controller includes a first cache operable to receive input/output requests between a host system and a storage device, to compress data of the input/output requests, and to cache the compressed data before writing to the storage device. The storage controller also includes a second cache operable to track chunks of the compressed data in the first cache. When the first cache fails, the second cache is operable to cache the tracked chunks of the compressed data that have not been written to the storage device in a third cache while leaving chunks of data in the second cache that have been written to the storage device.


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