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Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 19, 2012
Applicant:

Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mark Maybee, Boulder, CO (US);

Mark J. Musante, Westford, MA (US);

Assignee:

Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/167 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30466 (2013.01);
Abstract

Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method for joining read requests for the same data block sent to a storage appliance. The system and method is configured to receive the first read request for the data block at an I/O layer of the storage appliance. The I/O layer is configured to manage obtaining data blocks from one or more storage devices on the storage appliance. The system and method may then receive a second read request for the data block at the I/O layer of the storage appliance. The first and second read request may then be joined at I/O layer and only a single copy of the data block is returned to a cache in response to the first and second read requests.


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