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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2008
Alexandros Batsakis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Arkady Kanevsky, Swampscott, MA (US);
James Lentini, Woburn, MA (US);
Thomas Talpey, Stow, MA (US);
Alexandros Batsakis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Arkady Kanevsky, Swampscott, MA (US);
James Lentini, Woburn, MA (US);
Thomas Talpey, Stow, MA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Scheduling operations such as asynchronous file system operations in a network storage system is accomplished by applying a bid-price online auction methodology, in which bid (willingness-to-pay) values and price (cost) values are dynamically set by storage clients and a storage server, respectively, based on utilization of computing resources. The system provides a framework for adaptively scheduling asynchronous file system operations, managing multiple key resources of the distributed file system, including network bandwidth, server I/O, server CPU, and client and server memory utilization. The system can accelerate, defer, or cancel asynchronous requests to improve application-perceived performance. Congestion pricing via online auctions can be employed to coordinate the use of system resources by clients, so clients can detect shortages and adapt their resource usage.