IP Library Granted Patent US 11,681,657
Granted Patent B2
US 11,681,657 · App. 16/527,665 · Granted Jun 20, 2023

System and method for parallel flushing with bucketized data

Inventors: Socheavy D. Heng (Framingham, MA); William C. Davenport (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company, LLC
G06F16/1734G06F11/1451
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Patent No.
US 11,681,657
App. No.
16/527,665
Granted
Jun 20, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method, computer program product, and computer system for organizing a plurality of log records into a plurality of buckets, wherein each bucket is associated with a range of a plurality of ranges within a backing store. A bucket of the plurality of buckets from which a portion of the log records of the plurality of log records are to be flushed may be selected. The portion of the log records may be organized into parallel flush jobs. The portion of the log records may be flushed to the backing store in parallel.

Claims (32)

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

organizing a plurality of log records into a plurality of buckets, wherein each bucket is associated with a range of a plurality of ranges within a backing store;

selecting a bucket of the plurality of buckets from which a portion of the log records of the plurality of log records are to be flushed in parallel with one or more buckets of the plurality of buckets, wherein the bucket selected is the bucket with a lowest log sequence number (LSN) from a tree, wherein the log records organized in the selected bucket are processed in a chronological LSN order, and wherein the selected bucket is configured to be flushed in one parallel request;

organizing the portion of the log records into parallel flush jobs; and

flushing the portion of the log records to the backing store in parallel.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the portion of the log records include destination logical block address (LBA) of the backing store associated with the range, and wherein the portion of the log records include LSNs.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein selecting the bucket of the plurality of buckets from which the portion of the log records of the plurality of log records are to be flushed includes selecting the bucket with the lowest LSN from the tree.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 wherein flushing the portion of the log records to the backing store in parallel includes invalidating the portion of the log records in memory.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 wherein flushing the portion of the log records to the backing store in parallel further includes removing the portion of the log records from the bucket.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 wherein flushing the portion of the log records to the backing store in parallel further includes removing the portion of the log records from the tree.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 further comprising rebalancing the tree.

8. A computer program product residing on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed across one or more processors, causes at least a portion of the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

organizing a plurality of log records into a plurality of buckets, wherein each bucket is associated with a range of a plurality of ranges within a backing store;

selecting a bucket of the plurality of buckets from which a portion of the log records of the plurality of log records are to be flushed in parallel with one or more buckets of the plurality of buckets, wherein the bucket selected is the bucket with a lowest log sequence number (LSN) from a tree, wherein the log records organized in the selected bucket are processed in a chronological LSN order, and wherein the selected bucket is configured to be flushed in one parallel request;

organizing the portion of the log records into parallel flush jobs; and

flushing the portion of the log records to the backing store in parallel.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the portion of the log records include destination logical block address (LBA) of the backing store associated with the range, and wherein the portion of the log records include LSNs.

10. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein selecting the bucket of the plurality of buckets from which the portion of the log records of the plurality of log records are to be flushed includes selecting the bucket with the lowest LSN from the tree.

11. The computer program product of claim 10 wherein flushing the portion of the log records to the backing store in parallel includes invalidating the portion of the log records in memory.

12. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein flushing the portion of the log records to the backing store in parallel further includes removing the portion of the log records from the bucket.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 wherein flushing the portion of the log records to the backing store in parallel further includes removing the portion of the log records from the tree.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the operations further comprise rebalancing the tree.

15. A computing system including one or more processors and one or more memories configured to perform operations comprising:

organizing a plurality of log records into a plurality of buckets, wherein each bucket is associated with a range of a plurality of ranges within a backing store;

selecting a bucket of the plurality of buckets from which a portion of the log records of the plurality of log records are to be flushed in parallel with one or more buckets of the plurality of buckets, wherein the bucket selected is the bucket with a lowest log sequence number (LSN) from a tree, wherein the log records organized in the selected bucket are processed in a chronological LSN order, and wherein the selected bucket is configured to be flushed in one parallel request;

organizing the portion of the log records into parallel flush jobs; and

flushing the portion of the log records to the backing store in parallel.

16. The computing system of claim 15 wherein the portion of the log records include destination logical block address (LBA) of the backing store associated with the range, and wherein the portion of the log records include LSNs.

17. The computing system of claim 15 wherein selecting the bucket of the plurality of buckets from which the portion of the log records of the plurality of log records are to be flushed includes selecting the bucket with the lowest LSN from the tree.

18. The computing system of claim 17 wherein flushing the portion of the log records to the backing store in parallel includes invalidating the portion of the log records in memory and removing the portion of the log records from the bucket.

19. The computing system of claim 18 wherein flushing the portion of the log records to the backing store in parallel further includes removing the portion of the log records from the tree.

20. The computing system of claim 19 wherein the operations further comprise rebalancing the tree.

Assignments (9)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME (053546/0001) Recorded Jun 23, 2022
From: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
To: DELL MARKETING L.P. (ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND AS SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO CREDANT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.); DELL INTERNATIONAL L.L.C.; DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; DELL USA L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; DELL MARKETING CORPORATION (SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO FORCE10 NETWORKS, INC. AND WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.); EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
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RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME (053311/0169) Recorded Jun 23, 2022
From: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
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RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME (050724/0571) Recorded Jun 23, 2022
From: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
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RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST AT REEL 050406 FRAME 421 Recorded Nov 2, 2021
From: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
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SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 5, 2020
From: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 053311/0169 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 22, 2020
From: CREDANT TECHNOLOGIES INC.; DELL INTERNATIONAL L.L.C.; DELL MARKETING L.P.; DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; DELL USA L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; FORCE10 NETWORKS, INC.; WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
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PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT (NOTES) Recorded Oct 15, 2019
From: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
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SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Sep 17, 2019
From: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH
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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 31, 2019
From: HENG, SOCHEAVY D.; DAVENPORT, WILLIAM C.
To: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY, LLC
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