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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2013
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dnyaneshwar Pawar, Bangalore, IN;
Subramaniam V. Periyagaram, San Jose, CA (US);
Sandeep Yadav, Santa Clara, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A network adapter receives a request to store a data block. The data block is sent from the network adapter to a compression module. The compression module generates a compressed data block from the data block. The compressed data block or a reference to the compressed data block is stored in a buffer cache. The compressed data block is stored in nonvolatile memory. It is determined that the compressed data block should be flushed a storage device. In response to determining that the compressed data block should be flushed to the storage device, the compressed data block is flushed from the nonvolatile memory to the storage device.