Preventing extended latency in a storage system
US11481261B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 15, 2021 |
| Grant date | Oct 25, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 15, 2041 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2209/504
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Ensuring the fair utilization of system resources using workload based, time-independent scheduling, including: determining whether an amount of available system resources in the storage system has reached a predetermined reservation threshold; and responsive to determining that the amount of available system resources in the storage system has reached the predetermined reservation threshold: determining whether one or more entities in the storage system have utilized system resources in excess of their fair share by a predetermined threshold during one or more time-independent periods; and responsive to determining that one or more entities in the storage system have utilized system resources in excess of their fair share by the predetermined threshold during the time-independent period, limiting the one or more entities from issuing additional I/O requests to the storage system.
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