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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2014
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Peng Wu, Westborough, MA (US);
Rong Yu, Franklin, MA (US);
Dan Aharoni, Brookline, MA (US);
Alexandr Veprinsky, Brookline, MA (US);
Amnon Naamad, Brookline, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Described are techniques for destaging data. Write data for write operations are stored in cache page(s). The cache may be partitioned into cache pages and write data stored thereon may be marked as write pending denoting that write data needs to be written out to physical storage. Weight values may be determined for the cache pages in accordance with factors. A first cache page may be selected having a highest such weight value where the selected first cache page includes at least some write data marked as write pending. The write data of the selected first cache page may be destaged to physical storage.