Patent ID: 11893252
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the method further includes:
aggregating allocated PBs and associated PB pool offsets of a plurality of write I/Os into a plurality of contiguous segments of the aggregation queue;
determining, for a first of the plurality of contiguous segments of the aggregation queue, whether the first contiguous segment has an associated size exceeding a maximum aggregation size, or has an associated elapsed time exceeding an aggregation time limit, wherein the first contiguous segment has a first corresponding contiguous range of offsets in the PB pool; and
responsive to determining that the first contiguous segment has the associated size exceeding the maximum aggregation size, or has the associated elapsed time exceeding the aggregation time limit, persistently storing content of at least a portion of the plurality of write I/Os having corresponding PB pool offsets included in the first corresponding contiguous range associated with the first contiguous segment.