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Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 28, 2014
Applicant:

Formation Data Systems, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mark S. Lewis, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Vinay P. Rao, San Jose, CA (US);

Anna Povzner, San Jose, CA (US);

Subramanian Lakshmanan, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Formation Data Systems, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0674 (2013.01);
Abstract

An input/output (I/O) request is dispatched. A determination is made regarding a storage volume to service. A determination is made regarding whether an actual disk throughput exceeds a first threshold rate. The first threshold rate exceeds a reserved disk throughput. Responsive to determining that the actual disk throughput exceeds the first threshold rate, a first storage volume is selected based on credits or based on priority. Responsive to determining that the actual disk throughput does not exceed the first threshold rate, a second storage volume is selected based on guaranteed minimum I/O rate. An I/O request queue associated with the determined storage volume is determined. An I/O request is retrieved from the determined I/O request queue. The retrieved I/O request is sent to a persistence layer that includes the selected storage volume.


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