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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2016
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Provided are an apparatus, system and method for apparatus, system and method for throttling an acceptance rate for adding host Input/Output (I/O) commands to a buffer in a non-volatile memory storage device. Information is maintained on an input rate at which I/O commands are being added to the buffer and information is maintained on an output rate at which I/O commands are processed from the buffer to apply to execute against the non-volatile memory. A determination is made of a current level of available space in the buffer and an acceptance rate at which I/O commands are added to the buffer from the host system to process based on the input rate, the output rate, the current level of available space, and an available space threshold for the buffer to maintain the buffer at the available space threshold. I/O commands are added to the buffer to process based on the acceptance rate. The I/O commands are accessed from the buffer to process to execute against the non-volatile memory.