Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reclaiming storage resources
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Application No.: US15644854Application Date: 2017-07-10
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Publication No.: US10740227B2Publication Date: 2020-08-11
- Inventor: Pradeep Krishnamurthy , Prasanna Aithal , Asit Desai , Bryan Branstetter , Mahesh S Hiregoudar , Prasad Rao Jangam , Rohan Pasalkar , Srinivasa Shantharam , Raghavan Pichai
- Applicant: VMWARE, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@3b478b7b
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F3/06

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reclaiming one or more portions of storage resources in a computer system serving one or more virtual computing instances, where the storage resources in the computer system are organized in clusters of storage blocks. In one aspect, a method includes maintaining a respective block tracking value for each storage block that indicates whether a call to reclaim the storage block is outstanding; determining, from the block tracking values, a respective cluster priority value for each of the clusters based on a count of storage blocks in the respective cluster for which a call to reclaim is outstanding; and reclaiming a first portion of storage resources in the computer system in accordance with the cluster priority values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180314632A1 RECLAIMING STORAGE RESOURCES Public/Granted day:2018-11-01
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