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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 13, 2014
Applicant:

Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

John Colgrove, Los Altos, CA (US);

John Hayes, Mountain View, CA (US);

Bo Hong, Mountain View, CA (US);

Feng Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ethan Miller, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Craig Harmer, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 3/0646 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 11/0727 (2013.01); G06F 11/0751 (2013.01); G06F 11/1076 (2013.01); G06F 12/0804 (2013.01); G06F 2003/0697 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for effectively scheduling read and write operations among a plurality of solid-state storage devices. A computer system comprises client computers and data storage arrays coupled to one another via a network. A data storage array utilizes solid-state drives and Flash memory cells for data storage. A storage controller within a data storage array comprises an I/O scheduler. The storage controller is configured to receive a read request targeted to the data storage medium, and identify at least a first storage device of the plurality of storage devices which contains data targeted by the read request. In response to either detecting or predicting the first storage device will exhibit variable performance, the controller is configured to generate a reconstruct read request configured to obtain the data from one or more devices of the plurality of storage devices other than the first storage device.


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