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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
May. 22, 2007
Applicant:
R. Scott Tetrick, Portland, OR (US);
Inventor:
R. Scott Tetrick, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for handling conflicting deadlines by a disk drive. The method comprises: receiving a plurality of requests from a plurality of applications for accessing the disk drive; determining a plurality of service times for the plurality of requests; serving a first request of the plurality of request prior to an actual schedule when a deadline for serving the first request and a deadline for serving a subsequent request of the plurality of requests cannot be simultaneously met by the disk drive; and serving the subsequent request after the first request is served by the disk drive.