Storage apparatus comprising read-write cache and cache implementation method
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN ยท China
- Current Assignee / Owner
- NEW H3C TECH CO LTD
- Publication Date
- 2008-03-26
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable ยท inactive patent
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Abstract
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technical field
[0001] The invention relates to cache technology, in particular to a storage device including a read-write cache and a method for realizing the read-write cache in the storage device. Background technique
[0002] In storage devices, cache is an indispensable storage medium (usually one or more blocks of memory), which can accelerate the access speed of the main processor in the storage device to the disk group, thus greatly improving the overall performance of the storage device. s help.
[0003] It should be noted that the physical location and media type of the cache in the storage device mentioned here are different from the internal cache of the CPU of the computer system.
[0004] According to the type of access, cache can be divided into read cache and write cache. Wherein, for the storage device, the data in the write cache cannot be lost to avoid the loss of user data; while the data in the read cache is lost, the user data will not be lost. There...