Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Thresholding task control blocks for staging and destaging
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Application No.: US13958852Application Date: 2013-08-05
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Publication No.: US09658888B2Publication Date: 2017-05-23
- Inventor: Michael T. Benhase , Lokesh M. Gupta
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC
- Main IPC: G06F9/46
- IPC: G06F9/46 ; G06F9/50
Abstract:
For thresholding task control blocks (TCBs) for staging and destaging, a first tier of TCBs are reserved for guaranteeing a minimum number of TCBs for staging and destaging for storage ranks. An additional number of requested TCBs are apportioned from a second tier of TCBs to each of the storage ranks based on a scaling factor that is calculated at predefined time intervals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150040135A1 THRESHOLDING TASK CONTROL BLOCKS FOR STAGING AND DESTAGING Public/Granted day:2015-02-05
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