Log-structured array (LSA) partial parity eviction and reassembly
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsCharles Camp, Ioannis Koltsidas, Christopher Dennett, Andrew D. Walls
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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsCharles Camp, Ioannis Koltsidas, Christopher Dennett, Andrew D. Walls
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Embodiments for optimizing resource consumption through partial parity information eviction in a storage system of a data storage environment. One or more cooperative Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) parity computations are performed by evicting partial parity data from a RAID controller memory to a storage entity prior to a full stripes worth of data being monotonically written to the storage entity. The storage entity assembles the partial parity data from the one or more cooperative RAID parity computations into a single parity computation valid for the full stripes worth of data, thereby offloading parity computation to the storage entity to more efficiently utilize the RAID controller memory resources.
A method for optimizing resource consumption in a storage system of a data storage environment, by a processor, comprising:
A system for optimizing resource consumption in a storage system of a data storage environment, the system comprising:
A computer program product for optimizing resource consumption in a storage system of a data storage environment, by a processor, the computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:
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