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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2005
Che Lui Shum, San Jose, CA (US);
Limei Shaw, San Jose, CA (US);
Lucy Ya Mei Kung, Milpitas, CA (US);
Rong Zeng, San Jose, CA (US);
Che Lui Shum, San Jose, CA (US);
Limei Shaw, San Jose, CA (US);
Lucy Ya Mei Kung, Milpitas, CA (US);
Rong Zeng, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In accordance with a computer program product, apparatus and a method there is provided a redundant network wherein a host computer operates with a plurality of storage devices by monitoring conditions of the multipath storage network and controlling a storage multipath device driver in conjunction with an associated storage multipath device input/output (I/O) pending queue to increase I/O throughput to a storage device driver, such as a disk device driver, when I/O demand increases, and to decrease I/O throughput to the storage device driver in the event of an I/O error condition.