US Patent 10216630 Smart namespace SSD cache warmup for storage systems

In some embodiments, in response to receiving an indication to warm up a SSD cache, a system identifies namespace data of a file system to be warmed up separated from content data. The system identifies one or more namespace pages of the namespace data. For each of the one or more namespace pages, the system locks the namespace page in a read-only mode and determines if the namespace page is dirty. If the namespace page is dirty, the system releases the namespace page from the read-only mode without copying the namespace page to the SSD cache. If the page is clean (i.e., not dirty) then the system copies the namespace page to the SSD cache and releases the namespace page from the read-only mode to reduce cache misses of the namespace on the SSD cache.