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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Cachebox Inc., San Carlos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
PrimaryIO, Inc., San Carlos, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0655 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 12/00 (2013.01); G06F 2003/0692 (2013.01);
Abstract
In an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus comprises: a hard disk drive input/output (HDD I/O) optimizer configured to receive a primary input/output (I/O) operation stream for a given cylinder in a permanent storage device, configured to schedule a secondary input/output (I/O) operation stream that is pending on the same given cylinder or that is pending on an adjacent cylinder that is adjacent to the given cylinder, and configured to allocate free space from the same given cylinder or from the adjacent cylinder for the secondary I/O operation stream that is pending.