Avago Technologies General IP (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Intel Corporation

Kunal Sablok

Horia Cristian Simionescu

Siddhartha Kumar Panda

Sujoy Sen

Kapil Sundrani

Ramkumar Venkatachalam

Siddartha Kumar Panda

Jayaraj Puthenpurackal Rajappan

Veera Kumar Reddy Oleti

Technologies for quality of service (QoS) management include a computing device having a physical storage volume and multiple processor cores. A management thread reads I/O counters that are each associated with a logical volume and a processor core. The logical volumes are backed by the physical storage volume. The management thread configures stop bits as a function of the I/O counters and multiple QoS parameters. Each stop bit is associated with a logical volume and a processor core. The QoS parameters include minimum guaranteed bandwidth and optional maximum allowed bandwidth for each logical volume. A worker thread reads the stop bit associated with a logical volume and a processor core, accesses the logical volume if the stop bit is not set, and updates the I/O counter associated with the logical volume and the processor core in response to accessing the logical volume. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Technologies for lockless, scalable, and adaptive storage quality of service

An apparatus having a cache and a circuit is disclosed. The cache includes a plurality of cache lines. The cache is configured to (i) store a plurality of data items in the cache lines and (ii) generate a map that indicates a dirty state or a clean state of each of the cache lines. The cache also has a write-back policy to a memory. The circuit is configured to (i) check a location in the map corresponding to a read address of a read request and (ii) obtain read data directly from the memory by bypassing the cache in response to the location having the clean state.

Fast read in write-back cached memory

A storage controller coupled to a host computer is dynamically configured by a device driver executing in the host computer. The storage controller manages a logical volume for the host using a set of flash-based storage devices arranged as a redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID). The device driver identifies a RAID type for the logical volume and a queue depth from a stream of I/O commands. For a logical volume in RAID 0, the device driver compares the queue depth to a threshold value and configures the storage controller to process the stream of I/O commands with a first path or an alternative path based on a result of the comparison. For a logical volume in RAID 5, the device driver performs a similar comparison and uses the result to direct the storage controller to use a write back or a write through mode of operation.

Device driver, method and computer-readable medium for dynamically configuring a storage controller based on RAID type, data alignment with a characteristic of storage elements and queue depth in a cache

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