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US 9,176,854 B2Granted
Presenting enclosure cache as local cache in an enclosure attached server
AssigneeLenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsGary D. Cudak, Lydia M. Do, Christopher J. Hardee, Adam Roberts
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Abstract
Presenting enclosure cache as local cache in an enclosure attached server, including: determining, by the enclosure, a cache hit rate for local server cache in each of a plurality of enclosure attached servers; determining, by the enclosure, an amount of available enclosure cache for use by one or more of the enclosure attached servers; and offering, by the enclosure, some portion of the available enclosure cache to an enclosure attached server in dependence upon the cache hit rate and the amount of available enclosure cache.
Claims3
A method comprising:
- by computer program instructions on a computing device, the computing device comprising a first cache, the computing device attached to a server that includes a second cache and is physically separate from the computing device:
- requesting and receiving, from the server, a cache hit rate for the second cache;
- determining an amount of the first cache that is available for offering to the server;
- and
- based on the cache hit rate and the amount of the first cache that is available, offering for use, some portion of the first cache to the server.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.