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Efficient context based input/output (I/O) classification

  • US 10,318,450 B2
  • Filed: 07/01/2016
  • Issued: 06/11/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus, comprising:

  • a memory controller with circuitry configured to;

    classify one or more input/output (I/O) requests according to I/O classes;

    associate one or more I/O contexts extracted from the one or more I/O requests;

    to each of the I/O classes;

    assign a caching and processing priority policy to each of the I/O classes, wherein the memory controller is configured to use an I/O context association table to associate the one or more I/O contexts to each of the I/O classes in order to update the caching and processing priority policy for one or more subsequent I/O requests;

    execute the one or more I/O requests according to the caching and processing priority policy; and

    an interface to the memory controller.

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