FLUSHING DIRTY DATA FROM CACHE MEMORY

摘要

Disclosed herein are a system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and method to reduce input and output transactions. It is determined whether a first set of dirty data, a second set of dirty data, and a number of data blocks therebetween can be flushed with one transaction.

主权项

1. A system comprising;
a storage unit; a cache memory to cache data from the storage unit; a controller which, if executed, instructs at least one processor to:
read a request to write a first set of dirty data blocks to the storage unit from the cache memory; anddetermine whether the first set of dirty data blocks, a second set of dirty data blocks, and a number of data blocks therebetween can be written to the storage unit from the cache memory with one flush transaction, in order to reduce overall input and output transactions to and from the storage unit.