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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michael T. Benhase, Tucson, AZ (US);
Stephen L. Blinick, Tucson, AZ (US);
Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Rueschlikon, CH;
Lokesh M. Gupta, Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert Haas, Adliswil, CH;
Xiao-Yu Hu, Horgen, CH;
Matthew J. Kalos, Tucson, AZ (US);
Ioannis Koltsidas, Zurich, CH;
Roman A. Pletka, Uster, CH;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
For movement of partial data segments within a computing storage environment having lower and higher levels of cache by a processor, a whole data segment containing one of the partial data segments is promoted to both the lower and higher levels of cache, including considering an Input/Output Performance (IOP) metric, a bandwidth metric, and a garbage collection metric, and a whole data segment is promoted containing the one of the partial data segments to both the lower and higher levels of cache.