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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Enning Xiang, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Shannon Knauft, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pascal Renauld, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yiqi Xu, Mountain View, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An efficient scheduling of IOs in a computing system using dynamic bandwidth regulation includes building up a shared regulator to limit the total IOPS scheduling among all IO classes at any given time. Reserved regulators may be used to place limits on the IOPS scheduled for a particular IO class at any given time. An outstanding IO window may also limit the overall number of outstanding IOs, and/or the bytes of outstanding IOs at any particular time. A first stage of IO scheduling may involve enforcing the reserved regulators to limit the IOPS scheduled for particular IO classes. A second stage of IO scheduling may involve enforcing the shared regulator to limit the total IOPS scheduled for all IO classes.