1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a controller, a request to perform staging or destaging operations with respect to an area of a cache; determining whether one or more discard scans are being performed or queued for the area of the cache; and in response to determining that one or more discard scans are being performed or queued for the area of the cache, avoiding satisfying the request to perform the staging or the destaging operations or a read hit with respect to the area of the cache.