Patent ID: 11954346
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. The storage processor of claim 6, wherein:
the at least one processor is further configured to perform the operation of relinquishing each of the one more PLBs,
the write request is received by a client,
each of the plurality of stripes being associated with a counter that is used to detect when the stripe has become full,
reserving the one or more PLBs includes transmitting from the client to an allocation layer a request to reserve the one or PLBs and receiving, at the client, a response from the allocation layer indicating that the one or more PLBs have been reserved, and
relinquishing each of the one or more PLBs includes providing, by the client to the allocation layer, an incremented value of the counter for the stripe of which the PLB is part.