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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2005
Applicants:
Neela Syam Kolli, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Ajitabh Prakash Saxena, Duluth, GA (US);
Hardy Doelfel, Cumming, GA (US);
Inventors:
Neela Syam Kolli, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Ajitabh Prakash Saxena, Duluth, GA (US);
Hardy Doelfel, Cumming, GA (US);
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
System and methods are disclosed for load balancing Input/Output (IO) commands to be executed by one or more disk drives from an array of disk drives. Systems and methods disclosed herein use one or more properties, such as disk drive RPM, disk drive cache, command queue lengths, real-time drive data, and head position to provide load balancing of Input/Output commands.