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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2015
Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;
Shailesh Shiwalkar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hy Dinh Vu, Milpitas, CA (US);
Jagadish K. Mukku, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sandeep Karmarkar, Pune, IN;
Anil Goyal, San Ramon, CA (US);
Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;
Abstract
A cache system for a storage device includes a solid state drive (SSD), a random access memory (RAM), and a cache control device. The cache control device is configured to: retrieve data from the storage device in response to a request to read data from the storage device, store at least some of the data in one or both of (i) the SSD and (ii) the RAM, when storing the at least some of the data to the RAM, write to the RAM non-sequentially with respect to a memory space of the RAM, and when storing the at least some of the data in the SSD, write to the SSD sequentially with respect to a memory space of the SSD. The cache control device comprises an SSD interface device configured to allocate memory for storing data in the SSD sequentially with respect to the memory space of the SSD.