Management of Partial Data Segments in Dual Cache Systems
US 9,274,975
Filing Date: 2011-11-01
Issue Date: 2016-03-01
For movement of partial data segments within a computing storage environment having lower and higher levels of cache by a processor, a whole data segment containing one of the partial data segments is promoted to both the lower and higher levels of cache, including considering an Input/Output Performance (IOP) metric, a bandwidth metric, and a garbage collection metric, and a whole data segment is promoted containing the one of the partial data segments to both the lower and higher levels of cache.