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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2012
Guolin Huang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James A. Rizzo, Austin, TX (US);
Vinu Velayudhan, Fremont, CA (US);
Sumant K. Patro, Fremont, CA (US);
Guolin Huang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James A. Rizzo, Austin, TX (US);
Vinu Velayudhan, Fremont, CA (US);
Sumant K. Patro, Fremont, CA (US);
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and structure for resuming background tasks in a storage environment. storage controller. The system is operable to receive host Input/Output (I/O) requests directed to a logical volume, and to couple with one or more of storage devices provisioning the logical volume. The system is further operable to process the host I/O requests directed to the logical volume, to initiate a background processing task distinct from the host I/O requests and related to the logical volume, and to store progress information on at least one of the one or more storage devices describing progress of the background processing task.