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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Paul Miller Bird, Ontario, CA;
David Kalmuk, Ontario, CA;
Stephen Rees, Ontario, CA;
Scott Douglas Walkty, Ontario, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system assigns at least one workload a hard share quantity and at least one other workload a soft share quantity or a hard share quantity. The system allocates a resource to the workloads based on the hard share quantity and the soft share quantity of active workloads in a predefined interval. A hard share quantity indicates a maximum resource allocation and a soft share quantity enables allocation of additional available processor time. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for allocating a resource to workloads in substantially the same manner as described above.