Patent ID: 8271724

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a write request from a client at a storage server; determining that a first portion of a non-volatile log (NVLog) is in consistency point processing; classifying the received write request into a category, wherein the category is one of a plurality of categories of write requests to be logged in a second portion of the NVLog; determining if presently logging the received write request in the second portion of the NVLog would exceed a threshold for write requests of the classified category in the second portion of the NVLog when the first portion of the NVLog is in consistency point processing; if the write request would exceed the threshold, delaying the logging of the received write request until the first portion of the NVLog completes the consistency point processing; and if the write request would not exceed the threshold, logging the received write request in the second portion of the NVLog.