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AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorsRAKESH D. BARVE, PHILLIP B. GIBBONS, BRUCE K. HILLYER, YOSSI MATIAS, ELIZABETH SHRIVER, JEFFREY S. VITTER
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A method for scheduling access of data blocks located in a computer system having a plurality of disk drives, each disk drive has a disk cache with a specified fence parameter value coupled to a host computer via a common bus. The method according to one embodiment, comprises the steps of: (a) sequentially accessing each of the disk drives for a predetermined number of iterations to retrieve a predetermined number of data blocks; (b) for a specified number of the iterations, transferring data located in the disk cache to be transferred to the common bus and requesting data corresponding to the following iteration to be transferred to the disk cache; and (c) repeating steps (a) and (b) until the predetermined iterations are completed.
In a computer system having a plurality of disk drives each disk drive having a disk cache with a specified fence parameter value coupled to a host computer via a common bus, a method for scheduling access of data blocks located in each one of said disk drives, said method comprising the steps of:
In a computer system having a plurality of disk drives each disk drive having a disk cache with a specified fence parameter value coupled to a host computer via a common bus, a method for scheduling access of data blocks located in each one of said disk drives, said method comprising the steps of:
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