Method and apparatus to utilize free cache in a storage system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7606807
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11354600

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A system is provided to improve performance of a storage system. The system comprises a multi-tier buffer cache. The buffer cache may include a global cache to store resources for servicing requests issued from one or more processes at the same time, a free cache to receive resources from the global cache and to store the received resources as free resources, and a local cache to receive free resources from the free cache, the received free resources to store resources that can be accessed by a single process at one time. The system may further include a buffer cache manager to manage transferring resources from the global cache to the free cache and from the free cache to the local cache.

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  • NETWORK APPLIANCE, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Sobel, Jason S Santa Clara , US 6 164
Wall, Jonathan T San Francisco , US 3 5

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