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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2001
Kazuya Honma, Tokyo, JP;
Takuya Saegusa, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A disk array apparatus and an interrupt execution method of the same enables command processing received from an upper level apparatus to be executed in high-speed by reducing rate of the interrupt and substantial processing speed not to decrease even when a write command from the upper level apparatus is continuously executed. A configuration is capable of executing selectively either an immediate interrupt or a delay interrupt. Selection is made to execute the immediate interrupt in the case of a write command while in the case of a read-out command, the delay interrupt is selected. Moreover, Judgment whether or not competition of page occurs when the write command is detected, namely whether or not a region of a cache memory that becomes execution object of the command is used is performed. Only when competition of the page occurs, handling is switched from general delay interrupt to an immediate interrupt. It is possible to reduce waiting time caused by competition of the page while immediately releasing the region of the cache memory that becomes execution object of the command.