发明名称 |
Disk drive maintaining a cache link attribute for each of a plurality of allocation states |
摘要 |
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a cache buffer for caching data written to the disk and data read from the disk, the cache buffer comprising a plurality of cache segments linked together to form a plurality of cache links. At least one segment attribute is associated with each cache segment, including an allocation state, and at least one link attribute is associated with the segment attributes within each cache link. When a host command is received from a host computer, the link attributes are evaluated to allocate cache segments for a cache link associated with the host command.
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申请公布号 |
US6961814(B1) |
申请公布日期 |
2005.11.01 |
申请号 |
US20020262492 |
申请日期 |
2002.09.30 |
申请人 |
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. |
发明人 |
THELIN GREGORY B.;WANG MING Y. |
分类号 |
G06F12/00;G06F12/08;(IPC1-7):G06F12/00 |
主分类号 |
G06F12/00 |
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