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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2012
Raja Jayaraman, Fremont, CA (US);
James A. Rizzo, Austin, TX (US);
Rakesh Chandra, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vinu Velayudhan, Fremont, CA (US);
Phillip V. Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Raja Jayaraman, Fremont, CA (US);
James A. Rizzo, Austin, TX (US);
Rakesh Chandra, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vinu Velayudhan, Fremont, CA (US);
Phillip V. Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and structure for load balancing of background tasks between storage controllers are provided. An exemplary active storage controller comprises a front-end interface that receives host Input/Output (I/O) requests directed to a logical volume, a back-end interface that couples with one or more of storage devices provisioning the logical volume, and a control unit. The control unit processes the host I/O requests directed to the logical volume, identifies a background processing task distinct from the host I/O requests and related to the logical volume, and assigns the background processing task to a passive storage controller for processing.