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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2013
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Michael G Myrah, Sammamish, WA (US);
Balaji Natrajan, Spring, TX (US);
Rodrigo Stoll Martins Machado, Porto Alegre, BR;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Techniques for operating a serial attached SCSI (SAS) expander that includes a latency table comprising entries of outbound PHYS with latency values associated with connections between inbound PHYs and outbound PHYs. A storage management module to, in response to receipt of a command from an initiator device associated with an inbound PHY to route data to a target device associated with an outbound PHY, select from the latency table a random outbound PHY from among a plurality of outbound PHYs, wherein the random selection is based on weighted average of latency values of the outbound PHY entries of the latency table.