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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2011
Jonathan W. Haines, Boulder, CO (US);
Timothy R. Feldman, Louisville, CO (US);
Jonathan W. Haines, Boulder, CO (US);
Timothy R. Feldman, Louisville, CO (US);
Wayne H. Vinson, Boulder, CO (US);
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Implementations described and claimed herein provide a method and system for managing execution of commands for a storage device, the method comprising determining a plurality of commands to be executed for the storage device and while a storage device is executing at least one command, determining an execution order for at least two of the plurality of commands. Alternate implementation described and claimed herein provide a computer readable memory for storing a data structure, the data structure comprising a cost table comprising a number of cells, each cell containing one or more cost values related to one of a plurality of traversals between two locations on a storage device wherein each of the plurality of traversals is related to completion of one of a plurality of commands and a benefit array comprising a number of cells, each cell containing a benefit value related to completion of one of the plurality of commands.