METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE OF SEQUENTIAL LOGGING IN A STORAGE DEVICE

In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a storage device to receive, from a computing host, a request to append data to a data log. The storage device is further to identify a memory location after a last segment of the data log, append the data to the data log by writing the data to the memory lo...

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Hauptverfasser: Mangold Richard P, Ramalingam Anand, Camber August A, Khan Jawad Basit, Stern Jonathan Bryan, Walker Benjamin L, Trika Sanjeev
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Zusammenfassung:In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a storage device to receive, from a computing host, a request to append data to a data log. The storage device is further to identify a memory location after a last segment of the data log, append the data to the data log by writing the data to the memory location after the last segment of the data log, and provide, to the computing host, a key comprising an identification of the memory location at which the data was appended to the data log.