公开(公告)号：US11385803B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-12

申请号：US16860526

申请日：2020-04-28

Applicant: Green Market Square Limited

Inventor： Andrew D. Baptist ,  Ravi V. Khadiwala

IPC: G06F9/48 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F11/10 ,  G06F8/65 ,  H04L67/1097 ,  H03M13/05 ,  H04L67/56 ,  G06F21/31 ,  H04L9/40 ,  H04L61/10 ,  H04L61/50 ,  H03M13/37 ,  H03M13/15 ,  H03M13/00

Abstract: A method includes identifying, by a dispersed storage (DS) processing unit of a plurality of DS processing units of a dispersed storage network (DSN), a DSN operation to be performed that will adversely interfere with processing of DSN access requests. The method further includes sending, by the DS processing unit, a suspension request to a process balancing module of the DSN where the suspension request is for temporarily suspending processing of DSN access requests. The method further includes determining, by the process balancing module, whether sufficient processing resources of active DS processing units of the plurality of DS processing units are available for processing DSN access requests on behalf of the DS processing unit. When determined that sufficient processing resources are available, the method further includes granting the suspension request, and allocating DSN access requests of the DS processing unit to one ore of the active DS processing units.