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US 8,275,902 B2Granted
Method and system for heuristic throttling for distributed file systems
AssigneeOracle America, Inc.
InventorsBinu J. Philip, Sudheer Abdul Salam
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Abstract
A method for throttling in a file system. The method includes receiving a request by a client from an application to write data to a server, wherein the application is associated with an application bandwidth and wherein the server is associated with a server bandwidth, queuing a first job to write the data to the server on an I/O queue using an application-to-client throttling mechanism using at least one selected from the group of the application bandwidth and the server bandwidth, and issuing the first job from the I/O queue to the server using a client-to-server throttling mechanism and at least one selected from the group of the application bandwidth and the server bandwidth.
Claims20
A method for throttling in a file system, comprising:
- receiving a first request by a client from an application to write first data to a server across a network, wherein the application is associated with an application bandwidth comprising a rate at which the application writes data to a client storage device;
- storing the first data in the client storage device using the application bandwidth;
- queuing a first I/O request to write the first data to the server on an I/O queue;
- issuing the first I/O request from the I/O queue to the server using a server bandwidth comprising a rate at which I/O requests to write data to the server are issued;
- receiving an acknowledgment that the first I/O request has been completed by the server;
- determining a first server acknowledgement rate using the acknowledgment that the first I/O request has been completed by the server;
- determining a first perceived bandwidth using the application bandwidth, the first server acknowledgement rate, and an amount of available space on the client storage device;
- resetting the server bandwidth to the perceived bandwidth to obtain a reset server bandwidth;
- receiving a second request by the client from the application to write second data to the server;
- storing the second data in the client storage device using the application bandwidth;
- queuing a second I/O request to write the second data to the server on the I/O queue;
- and
- issuing the second I/O request from the I/O queue to the server using the reset server bandwidth.
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A non-transitory computer readable storage medium for throttling in a file system, comprising computer readable code, wherein the code is configured to:
- receive a request, by a client from an application, to write first data to a server across a network, wherein the application is associated with an application bandwidth comprising a rate at which the application writes data to a client storage device;
- store the first data in the client storage device using the application bandwidth;
- queue a first I/O request to write the first data to the server on an I/O queue;
- issue the first I/O request from the I/O queue to the server using a server bandwidth comprising a rate at which I/O requests to write data to the server are issued;
- receive an acknowledgment that the first I/O request has been completed by the server;
- determine a first server acknowledgement rate using the acknowledgment that the first I/O request has been completed by the server,
- determine a first perceived bandwidth using the application bandwidth, the first server acknowledgement rate, and an amount of available space on the client storage device;
- reset the server bandwidth to the perceived bandwidth to obtain a reset server bandwidth;
- receive a second request by the client from the application to write second data to the server;
- store the second data in the client storage device using the application bandwidth;
- queue a second I/O request to write the second data to the server on the I/O queue;
- and
- issue the second I/O request from the I/O queue to the server using the reset server bandwidth.
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A client, comprising:
- a processor;
- an application, executing on the processor, configured to send a request to the client to write first data to a server, wherein the application is associated with an application bandwidth and wherein the server is associated with a server bandwidth;
- a client storage device configured to store the first data using the application bandwidth comprising a rate at which the application writes data to a client storage device;
- an I/O queue configured to:
- queue a first I/O request to write the first data to the server;
- and
- issue the first I/O request to the server using a server bandwidth comprising a rate at which I/O requests to write data to the server are issued;
- an acknowledgement engine configured to receive an acknowledgment that the first I/O request has been completed by the server;
- a bandwidth engine configured to:
- determine a first server acknowledgement rate using the acknowledgment that the first I/O request has been completed by the servers;
- determine a first perceived bandwidth using the application bandwidth, the first server acknowledgement rate, and an amount of available space on the client storage device;
- and
- reset the server bandwidth to the perceived bandwidth to obtain a reset server bandwidth;
- wherein the application is further configured to send a second request to the client to write second data to the server;
- wherein the client storage device is further configured to store the second data using the application bandwidth;
- and
- wherein the I/O queue is further configured to:
- queue a second I/O request to write the second data to the server;
- and
- issue the second I/O request to the server using the reset server bandwidth.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.