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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2012
Applicant:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Dustin L. Green, Redmond, WA (US);
Yau Ning Chin, Seattle, WA (US);
Bruce L. Worthington, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for managing the flow of IO jobs from a client to a hardware device such that resource starvation is reduced without significantly impacting throughput. Each flow can be assigned an amount of time that a hardware device can deplete completing IO jobs from the client. When the allocated amount of time is used IO jobs associated with the client can be stored in a queue until the client obtains more time.