摘要:
A system and method for flexible device driver resource allocation is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for allocating device driver resources in a data processing system includes statically allocating hardware resource pools to device drivers on a rigid basis during initialization of the data processing system, and dynamically altering the allocated hardware resource pools to the device drivers based on parameters associated with utilization of the allocated hardware resource pools during run-time.
摘要:
A method and system for optimizing network I/O throughput is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for optimizing an input/output (I/O) throughput for a storage network comprises measuring a service time for a storage device of the storage network in completing an I/O request serviced by a storage driver. The method also comprises determining a status of an I/O performance between the storage driver and the storage device by comparing the service time with an expected service time for the storage device in completing the I/O request, where the expected service time is calculated based on a type of the storage device and a size of the I/O request. The method further comprises adjusting a maximum queue depth associated with the storage device based on the status of the I/O performance.
摘要:
A method and system of a host device hosting multiple workloads for controlling flows of I/O requests directed to a storage device is disclosed. In one embodiment, a type of a response from the storage device reacting to an I/O request issued by an I/O stack layer of the host device is determined. Then, a workload associated with the I/O request is identified among the multiple workloads based on the response to the I/O request. Further, a maximum queue depth assigned to the workload is adjusted based on the type of the response, where the maximum queue depth is a maximum number of I/O requests from the workload which are concurrently issuable by the I/O stack layer.
摘要:
A method, a system and a computer program for determining device criticality during SAN reconfiguration operations comprising the steps of building the SAN connectivity graph and mapping the reconfiguration on SAN connectivity graph; locating the affected host systems; and determining the device criticality for each of the affected host systems. The hosts systems may also be provided with impact analysis agents to generate device criticality on host systems and a central agent to aggregate the device criticality from impact analysis agent and provide feedback to data center administrator.
摘要:
Method(s) for providing Quality of Service (QoS) control in a plurality of sections of a network environment are described herein. Each of the plurality of sections includes at least one device to provide QoS control in the respective section. Further, in each of the plurality of sections of the network environment, one or more fields of a WIT are identified. An application command, generated at a section of the network environment, is provided quality of service in the plurality of sections, based on the one or more fields identified from the WIT.
摘要:
Methods for classification of application commands are described. An application command associated with a classification parameter is generated by an application in a first device. A classification value is determined for the application command based on the classification parameter. The classification value is associated with the application command and is sent to a second device for processing.
摘要:
The invention relates to management of a plurality of I/O requests in a storage system. The host interface module is configured to receive a plurality of I/O request which includes an associated priority; create an I/O request queue for each associated priority; define a threshold value for the queue length for each of the plurality of I/O request queues; and determine if the queue length for one of the plurality of the I/O request queue corresponding to the associated priority is less than the defined threshold value for the queue length for the one of the plurality of the I/O request queues. If the queue length of the one of the plurality of I/O request queues is more than the defined threshold value for the queue then the host interface module is further configured to rejecting the I/O request and sending a queue full message; wherein the threshold value for the queue length is based on the processing rate of the I/O requests in the plurality of the I/O request queues.
摘要:
Provided is computer implemented method for logging system events, comprising: allocating a memory area for a log; receiving data indicative of a log event; storing said data in said memory area; synchronising data in said memory area to a log file stored in non-volatile storage, the non-volatile storage and the memory area being inaccessible to a user or an administrator.
摘要:
A method of recovering from an operating system crash or failure in a first memory. Upon detecting the crash or failure, a second memory provided as auxiliary memory to the first memory and being of equal size to the first memory is initialized, the operating system is booted in the second memory, content of the first memory is dumped to a dump storage device, and the first memory is prepared for use as auxiliary memory.