US 12,298,866 B2
Managing restore workloads using a hazard function
Keyur B. Desai, Cary, NC (US); Dominick J. Santangelo, Raleigh, NC (US); and Divya Chukkapalli, Durham, NC (US)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/296,735.
Application 18/296,735 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/101,326, filed on Nov. 23, 2020, granted, now 11,630,743.
Prior Publication US 2023/0244575 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 11/1469 (2013.01) [G06F 11/076 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
obtaining a data set that associates a number of failures with a time period for a recovery operation being performed using a file;
determining a hazard value for the data set, wherein the data set corresponds to a subpopulation of accesses to the file during the recovery operation;
enabling or disabling a read ahead cache based on the hazard value; and
caching data from the file in the read ahead cache when the read ahead cache is enabled.