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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2010
Vibhor Patale, Bangalore, IN;
Rupesh Bajaj, Madhya Pradesh, IN;
Edward Goggin, Concord, MA (US);
Hariharan Subramanian, Wakefield, MA (US);
Vibhor Patale, Bangalore, IN;
Rupesh Bajaj, Madhya Pradesh, IN;
Edward Goggin, Concord, MA (US);
Hariharan Subramanian, Wakefield, MA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for use in a system that includes a host machine that includes multiple physical CPUs (PCPUs) and at least two cache nodes that are shared by different sets of the PCPUs, comprising: creating in a memory device multiple sets of lanes each lane set associated with a respective PCPU set; tracking levels of processing activity of the PCPUs of each PCPU set; using an MSIX vector value to associate lanes with PCPUs; receiving a IO request from any given PCPU from among the multiple PCPUs; and assigning the IO request to a respective lane based at least in part upon the PCPU set associated with the lane and PCPU processing activity levels.