Cache affinity and processor utilization technique

    公开(公告)号:US09842008B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-12

    申请号:US15051947

    申请日:2016-02-24

    Applicant: NetApp, Inc.

    Abstract: A cache affinity and processor utilization technique efficiently load balances work in a storage input/output (I/O) stack among a plurality of processors and associated processor cores of a node. The storage I/O stack employs one or more non-blocking messaging kernel (MK) threads that execute non-blocking message handlers (i.e., non-blocking services). The technique load balances work between the processor cores sharing a last level cache (LLC) (i.e., intra-LLC processor load balancing), and load balances work between the processors having separate LLCs (i.e., inter-LLC processor load balancing). The technique may allocate a predetermined number of logical processors for use by an MK scheduler to schedule the non-blocking services within the storage I/O stack, as well as allocate a remaining number of logical processors for use by blocking services, e.g., scheduled by an operating system kernel scheduler.

    Third vote consensus in a cluster using shared storage devices

    公开(公告)号:US09836366B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-05

    申请号:US14924318

    申请日:2015-10-27

    Applicant: NetApp, Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F11/2033 G06F11/1425 G06F11/2046 G06F2201/805

    Abstract: A third vote consensus technique enables a first node, i.e., a surviving node, of a two-node cluster to establish a quorum and continue to operate in response to failure of a second node of the cluster. Each node maintains configuration information organized as a cluster database (CDB) which may be changed according to a consensus-based protocol. Changes to the CDB are logged on a third copy file system (TCFS) stored on a local copy of TCFS (L-TCFS). A shared copy of the TCFS (i.e., S-TCFS) may be stored on shared storage devices of one or more storage arrays coupled to the nodes. The local copy of the TCFS (i.e., L-TCFS) represents a quorum vote for each node of the cluster, while the S-TCFS represents an additional “tie-breaker” vote of a consensus-based protocol. The additional vote may be obtained from the shared storage devices by the surviving node as a third vote to establish the quorum and enable the surviving node to cast two of three votes (i.e., a majority of votes) needed to continue operation of the cluster. That is, the majority of votes allows the surviving node to update the CDB with the configuration information changes so as to continue proper operation of the cluster.

    Cluster configuration information replication

    公开(公告)号:US09836249B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-05

    申请号:US15661055

    申请日:2017-07-27

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F3/067 G06F3/0617 G06F3/0629

    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for cluster configuration information replication, managing cluster-wide service agents, and/or for cluster-wide outage detection. In an example of cluster configuration information replication, a replication workflow corresponding to a storage operation implemented for a storage object (e.g., renaming of a volume) of a first cluster may be transferred to a second storage cluster for selectively implementation. In an example of managing cluster-wide service agents, cluster-wide service agents are deployed to nodes of a cluster storage environment, where a master agent actively processes cluster service calls and standby agents passively wait for reassignment as a failover master in the event the master agent fails. In an example of cluster-wide outage detection, a cluster-wide outage may be determined for a cluster storage environment based upon a number of inaccessible nodes satisfying a cluster outage detection metric.

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