Pacing in a storage sub-system
US11609700B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 20, 2021 |
| Grant date | Mar 21, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 20, 2041 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/0793
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
One embodiment includes data communication apparatus including a storage sub-system to be connected to storage devices, and processing circuitry to manage transfer of content with the storage devices over the storage sub-system responsively to content transfer requests, while pacing commencement of serving of respective ones of the content transfer requests responsively to availability of spare data capacity of the storage sub-system, find a malfunctioning storage device currently assigned a given data capacity of the storage sub-system and currently assigned to serve at least one content transfer request, and reallocate the given data capacity of the storage sub-system currently assigned to the malfunctioning storage device for use by at least another one of the storage devices while the at least one content transfer request assigned to be served by the malfunctioning storage device is still awaiting completion by the malfunctioning storage device.
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