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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1998
William V Courtright, II, Wichita, KS (US);
William P Delaney, Wichita, KS (US);
Gerald J Fredin, Wichita, KS (US);
LSI Logic Corp., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for globally prioritizing and scheduling I/O requests from a plurality of storage users or clients to one or more storage objects. The system comprises a storage controller configured to receive I/O requests from the client workstations and prioritize and schedule those I/O requests in accordance with a scheduling algorithm. Specifically, the storage controller receives I/O requests from the storage users and places the I/O requests in memory queues associated with the particular storage users. The storage controller then selects the I/O requests from the various memory queues based on the scheduling algorithm.