- Patent Title: Method, apparatus and computer program product for managing cache
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Application No.: US16445990Application Date: 2019-06-19
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Publication No.: US11263080B2Publication Date: 2022-03-01
- Inventor: Xiongcheng Li , Jibing Dong , Hongpo Gao , Jianbin Kang , Xinlei Xu , Jian Gao
- Applicant: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Applicant Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Current Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Agency: BainwoodHuang
- Priority: CN201810801996.4 20180720
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00 ; G06F11/10 ; G06F12/0804 ; G06F11/07 ; G06F12/0897 ; G06F3/06

Abstract:
Techniques manage a cache. Such techniques involve creating a primary cache by a cache management module in a storage system. Such techniques further involve: in response to the primary cache being created, sending a first request to a hardware management module to obtain first information about a first virtual disk. Such techniques further involve: in response to receiving the first information from the hardware management module, creating a secondary cache using the first virtual disk. Such techniques further involve: in response to an available capacity of the primary cache being below a predetermined threshold, flushing at least one cache page in the primary cache to the secondary cache. In certain techniques, it is possible to use spare extents in the disk array to create the secondary cache to increase a total capacity of the cache in the system, thereby improving the access performance of the system.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200026647A1 METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MANAGING CACHE Public/Granted day:2020-01-23
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