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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
May. 02, 2011
Nhan Q. Vo, Cypress, TX (US);
Benjamin T. Allen, Cypress, TX (US);
Chiung-sheng Wu, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Stephen M. Schultz, Houston, TX (US);
Jay E. Allison, Jr., Spring, TX (US);
Mark L. Oelke, Spring, TX (US);
Nhan Q. Vo, Cypress, TX (US);
Benjamin T. Allen, Cypress, TX (US);
Chiung-Sheng Wu, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Stephen M. Schultz, Houston, TX (US);
Jay E. Allison, Jr., Spring, TX (US);
Mark L. Oelke, Spring, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system having input/output hot spot tracking is disclosed. The storage system includes a storage device, a host controller coupled to the storage device, and a tracking engine coupled to the host controller and the storage device. The host controller is configured to managed input/output of the storage device. The tracking engine includes a storage map cycling between active status and passive status. Input/output commands are stored in the storage map during the active status. Like input/output commands in the storage map during active status are counted and compared to a number. Counts greater than the number are reported as input/output hot spots.