SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING THE PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF A STORAGE CONTROLLER CACHE OFFLOAD CIRCUIT
摘要
A method for offloading a cache memory is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) reading all of a plurality of cache lines from the cache memory in response to an assertion of a signal to offload of the cache memory, (B) generating a plurality of blocks by dividing the cache lines in accordance with a RAID configuration and (C) writing the blocks among a plurality of nonvolatile memories in the RAID configuration, wherein each of the nonvolatile memories has a write bandwidth less than a read bandwidth of the cache memory.
申请公布号
WO2008066605(A2)
申请公布日期
2008.06.05
申请号
WO2007US21692
申请日期
2007.10.09
申请人
LSI CORPORATION;EL-BATAL, MOHAMAD;NICHOLS, CHARLES;SHERMAN, JOHN;HOLT, KEITH;STUHLSATZ, JASON
发明人
EL-BATAL, MOHAMAD;NICHOLS, CHARLES;SHERMAN, JOHN;HOLT, KEITH;STUHLSATZ, JASON