Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Address formation – Generating a particular pattern/sequence of addresses
Reexamination Certificate
2004-03-11
2008-12-09
Kim, Matt (Department: 2186)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Address formation
Generating a particular pattern/sequence of addresses
C711S112000, C711S173000, C711S213000, C711S218000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07464250
ABSTRACT:
The invention discloses a method for loading data from a disk. The method may comprise comparing a current sequence of disk requests to data indicative of a previous disk request sequence. Responsive to detecting a match between the current disk sequence and the previous disk I/O sequence, a copy of data blocks accessed during the current disk sequence may be stored in a contiguous portion of the disk. Responsive to a subsequent request for data in the disk sequence, the request may be mapped to and serviced from the sequential portion of the disk: The continuous portion of the disk to which the data is copied may be on a different partition of the disk than a disk partition on which the original data is stored. A sequence of disk accesses may be recorded. Responsive to retrieving data from the continuous portion, additional data from the contiguous portion of the disk may be prefetched and may be cached in a buffer. Responsive to an I/O request, it may be determined whether the requested data resides in the buffer, and if so, the data from the buffer may be retrieved without accessing the hard disk. In an exemplary embodiment, the disk sequence may represent a boot sequence of the system.
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Dayan Richard Alan
Macon, Jr. James Franklin
Biggers & Ohanian LLP
Byrd Cynthia S.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Kim Matt
Ohanian H. Artoush
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