If at block 1122 the cache management application 116 determines that that neither are there too many tracks with minimum retention time nor are there too few tracks that are eligible for demotion from the SCM cache that may cause the SCM cache to become full (“No” branch 1126) then there is no danger of the SCM cache 114 becoming full and the cache management application 116 moves (at block 1128) the track to the MRU end of the LRU list 118 (i.e., the track is retained in the SCM cache 114 and moved to the MRU end of the LRU list 118).
Therefore,