US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 30 for "Dynamic cache slot pre-allocation" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,102, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dynamic cache slot pre-allocation" was invented by John Creed (Innishannon, Ireland) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to dynamically pre-allocating cache slots based on workload forecasting. In embodiments, characteristics corresponding to one or more input/output (IO) operations received by a storage array are determined. An IO workload for one or more cache segments of system memory of the storage array is also forecasted. In addition, a queue depth for each cache ...