Patent ID: 8171227
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing a flow based reply cache of a storage system having a processor and a memory, comprising: organizing, by a flow creator entity of the storage system, the flow based reply cache into one or more microcaches, each microcache having a plurality of entries; allocating, by the flow creator entity of the storage system, each microcache to a client of the storage system, such that each client has a set of entries that is not shared with other clients; determining whether a given client is active or inactive; expiring, by a scrubber engine of the storage system, entries of a microcache allocated to the given client based on a first value when the given client is determined to be active; and expiring, by the scrubber engine of the storage system, the entries of the microcache allocated to the given client based on a second value that is different from the first value when the given client is determined to be inactive, wherein