Dynamically configurable storage device

An apparatus comprising:

• a controller;
• a plurality of logical units;
• a common pool of resources;
• and
• a memory communicatively coupled to the controller, wherein the controller is configured to:
• determine a requirement for supplementary resources for processing upcoming storage specific commands associated with at least one of the plurality of logical units;
• identify a type of supplementary resources required for processing the upcoming storage specific commands associated with the at least one of the plurality of logical units;
• determine whether unused resources of the identified resource type are present in the common pool of resources shared among the plurality of logical units;
• and
• dynamically configuring the common pool of resources among the plurality of logical units such that one or more of the unused resources of the identified resource type present in the common pool of resources are allocated to the at least one of the plurality of logical units as supplementary resources for processing the upcoming storage specific commands.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the program comprises instruction that, when executed, instruct a controller in a storage device to:

• determine a requirement for supplementary resources for processing upcoming storage specific commands associated with at least one of a plurality of logical units of the storage device;
• identify a type of supplementary resources required for processing the upcoming storage specific commands associated with the at least one of the plurality of logical units;
• determine whether unused resources of the identified resource type present in the common pool of resources shared among the plurality of logical units;
• and
• dynamically configure the common pool of resources among the plurality of logical units such that one or more of the unused resources of the identified resource type present in the common pool of resources are allocated to the at least one of the plurality of logical units as supplementary resources for processing the upcoming storage specific commands.