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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:
Mar. 01, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 22, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

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;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/12 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/128 (2013.01); G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 12/0868 (2013.01); G06F 12/0891 (2013.01); G06F 12/0897 (2013.01); G06F 12/126 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1021 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1041 (2013.01); G06F 2212/222 (2013.01); G06F 2212/283 (2013.01); G06F 2212/69 (2013.01);
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.


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