Patent ID: 8549225
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer program product to efficiently destage data from a large secondary cache, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-usable program code embodied therein, the computer-usable program code comprising: computer-usable program code to accumulate, in a secondary cache, a plurality of data tracks, the data tracks comprising at least one of modified data and unmodified data; computer-usable program code to determine if a subset of the plurality of data tracks makes up a full stride; computer-usable program code to retain the subset of data tracks in the secondary cache if the subset of data tracks do not make up a full stride; and computer-usable program code to destage the subset of data tracks from the secondary cache if the subset of data tracks do make up a full stride.