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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2007
Binny Sher Gill, Auburn, MA (US);
Michael Thomas Benhase, Tucson, AZ (US);
Joseph Smith Hyde, Ii, Tucson, AZ (US);
Thomas Charles Jarvis, Tucson, AZ (US);
Bruce Mcnutt, Tucson, AZ (US);
Dharmendra Shantilal Modha, San Jose, CA (US);
Binny Sher Gill, Auburn, MA (US);
Michael Thomas Benhase, Tucson, AZ (US);
Joseph Smith Hyde, II, Tucson, AZ (US);
Thomas Charles Jarvis, Tucson, AZ (US);
Bruce McNutt, Tucson, AZ (US);
Dharmendra Shantilal Modha, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for managing write requests in cache directed to different storage groups. A determination is made of a high and low thresholds for a plurality of storage groups configured in a storage, wherein the high and low thresholds for one storage group indicate a high and low percentage of a cache that may be used to store write requests to the storage group. A determination is made of a number of tasks to assign to the storage groups based on the determined high and low thresholds for the storage groups, wherein each task assigned to one storage group destages write requests from the cache to the storage group.