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Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2020
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Hongpo Gao, Beijing, CN;

Philippe Armangau, Acton, MA (US);

Geng Han, Beijing, CN;

Jian Gao, Beijing, CN;

Shaoqin Gong, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/2094 (2013.01); G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 11/1092 (2013.01); G06F 13/1668 (2013.01); G06F 2201/82 (2013.01);
Abstract

In response to failure of a data storage drive, data previously stored on the failed drive is rebuilt on a replacement data storage drive by executing drive rebuild jobs on a first set of processor cores. While the data previously stored on the failed data storage drive is being rebuilt, a second set of processor cores is used to process host I/O (Input/Output) requests. The host I/O requests processed by the second set of processor cores may be a first set of host I/O requests processed during the data rebuild. When a current total number of outstanding host I/O requests exceeds a threshold maximum number of outstanding host I/O requests, at least one processor core in the first set of processor cores may be used to process a second set of host I/O requests while the data previously stored on the failed data storage drive is being rebuilt.


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