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Quality of service management

US8250197B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 28, 2008
Grant dateAug 21, 2012
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Expiry dateFeb 21, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L49/901
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for providing quality of service to a plurality of hosts accessing a common resource is described. The common resource may be a middle-tier or back-end server. A client IO request is received at one host of the plurality of hosts from one of a plurality clients executing as software entities on respective hosts. The host determines whether an issue queue is full. The IO request is issued to the common resource when the issue queue is not full. A current average latency observed at the host and an adjusted window size is calculated, based at least in part on the current average latency. The issue queue is resized to correspond with the adjusted window size.

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