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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2004
Lynn Keat Chung, Rochester, MN (US);
Christopher Francois, Apple Valley, MN (US);
Mark Robert Funk, Mantorville, MN (US);
Richard Karl Kirkman, Rochester, MN (US);
Henry Joseph May, Mantorville, MN (US);
Don Darrell Reed, Mantorville, MN (US);
Kenneth Charles Vossen, Mantorville, MN (US);
Lynn Keat Chung, Rochester, MN (US);
Christopher Francois, Apple Valley, MN (US);
Mark Robert Funk, Mantorville, MN (US);
Richard Karl Kirkman, Rochester, MN (US);
Henry Joseph May, Mantorville, MN (US);
Don Darrell Reed, Mantorville, MN (US);
Kenneth Charles Vossen, Mantorville, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus, method, and program product for observing the nodal workload balance of the system on an ongoing basis, and for dynamically changing the preferred nodes of existing threads in order to improve nodal balance. Workload balance is ascertained on a nodal basis and then thread-based workload information is collected. If the detected imbalance persists, the thread-based information is used to change the assignment of preferred nodes to threads to improve nodal workload balance.