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Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2014
Applicant:

Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventor:

Girish Chandrashekar, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0868 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0617 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/0658 (2013.01); G06F 12/0868 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1008 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1016 (2013.01); G06F 2212/154 (2013.01); G06F 2212/163 (2013.01); G06F 2212/251 (2013.01); G06F 2212/286 (2013.01); G06F 2212/314 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for optimized read access to shared data via monitoring of mirroring operations are described. A data storage system performs operations that include one controller in a dual-controller host storage appliance in an asymmetric active/active configuration receiving a request from the host for data on a logical unit number owned by the partner controller. The receiving controller, which has a mirror cache of the partner controller's memory for failure recovery, accesses the mirror cache using a data structure that was populated during previous mirror operations. If the data is found in the mirror cache, it is read from the cache and returned to the requesting host without having to contact the partner controller for the data.


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