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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2007
David Darden Chambliss, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Divyesh Jadav, San Jose, CA (US);
Tzongyu Paul Lee, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ramachandran Gopalakrishna Menon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prashant Pandey, Fremont, CA (US);
Jian Xu, San Jose, CA (US);
David Darden Chambliss, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Divyesh Jadav, San Jose, CA (US);
Tzongyu Paul Lee, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ramachandran Gopalakrishna Menon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prashant Pandey, Fremont, CA (US);
Jian Xu, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method comprises, using at least one processor, controlling communication between Service Level Agreement (SLA) processes of an SLA services module and at least one I/O performance gateway; and using a thread pair associated with each of the at least one processors, processing inbound signals from the at least one I/O erformance atewa being sent to the SLA services module via an inbound thread, and processing outbound signals to the at least one I/O performance gateway received from the SLA services module via an outbound thread, wherein the inbound thread and the outbound thread operate asynchronously to provide non-blocking messaging.