Methods and apparatus for ensuring quality of service in an operating system
US6725456B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 29, 1999 |
| Grant date | Apr 20, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 29, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2209/5014
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A uniform application programming interface (API) provides efficient generation and control of resource reservations so as to ensure a desired quality of service (QoS) for applications running on an operating system of a computer system. The uniform API is based on a hierarchical file system which associates resource reservations with references to shared objects, rather than with the objects themselves. The uniform API permits the use of a variety of different proportional share schedulers for controlling access to physical resources, e.g., CPU, memory, disk, network interfaces, etc. of the computer system. The hierarchical file system includes a separate directory for each independently-scheduled physical resource of the computer system. A parent of the resource reservation in the hierarchical file system is either a root node of the file system or another reservation for the same resource. The resource reservation represents either an internal reservation, corresponding to a directory in the file system which is permitted to have child nodes associated therewith in the file system, or a queue, corresponding to a directory which is not permitted to have child nodes associated the…
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