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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Thomas R. Bolt, San Diego, CA (US);
Clay Mayers, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0866 (2013.01); G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 12/0893 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system for transferring data from mass storage devices to the high speed data cache in a manner that imposes minimal overhead to the normal input/output mechanism and minimizes the load placed on the device being cached is disclosed herein. Minimizing the load placed on the slower device and minimizing the overhead of processing input/output requests results in optimal performance.