Method, device and computer program product for coordinating access operations

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10929065-B2
Application number	US-201916447129-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 20, 2019
Priority date	Jul 20, 2018
Publication date	Feb 23, 2021
Grant date	Feb 23, 2021

Abstract

Techniques coordinate access operations. Such techniques involve: obtaining first statistical data of a first set of access operations associated with a first storage resource pool in the RAID and second statistical data of a second set of access operations associated with a second storage resource pool in the RAID, the first set of access operations including a background access operation and a user access operation, and the second set of access operations including at least a user access operation; determining, based on the first and second statistical data, availability of a memory shared by the first and second storage resource pools; and adjusting, based on the availability, the background access operation in the first set of access operations to control a capacity of the memory occupied by the background access operation. Accordingly, the response time of the storage system for the user access operations can be shortened, etc.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method for coordinating access operations for a redundant array of independent disks (RAID), comprising:
obtaining first statistical data of a first set of access operations associated with a first storage resource pool in the RAID and second statistical data of a second set of access operations associated with a second storage resource pool in the RAID, the first set of access operations including a background access operation and a user access operation, and the second set of access operations including at least a user access operation;
determining, based on the first and second statistical data, availability of a memory shared by the first and second storage resource pools; and
adjusting, based on the availability of the memory, the background access operation in the first set of access operations so as to control a capacity of the memory occupied by the background access operation.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein obtaining the first statistical data includes the following: obtaining at least one of a type, granularity, a scheduling frequency, the number of parallel threads, and duration of the background access operation in the first set of access operations; and obtaining at least one of the number of user access operations, response time for the user access operation, and a timestamp of a last user access operation in the first set of access operations.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein obtaining the second statistical data includes:
obtaining at least one of the number of user access operations, response time for the user access operation, and a timestamp of a last user access operation in the second set of access operations.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein determining the availability of the memory includes:
determining an available capacity of the memory based on the number of user access operations in the first statistical data and the second statistical data; and
determining a capacity ratio between the available capacity and a total capacity of the memory.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein adjusting the background access operation includes:
in response to the capacity ratio being below a first capacity threshold, performing at least one of the following:
decreasing granularity of the background access operation,
decreasing a scheduling frequency of the background access operation,
reducing the number of parallel threads of the background access operation, and
shortening duration of the background access operation; and
in response to the capacity ratio exceeding a second capacity threshold that is greater than the first capacity threshold, performing at least one of the following:
increasing the granularity of the background access operation,
increasing the scheduling frequency of the background access operation,
increasing the number of parallel threads of the background access operation, and
increasing the duration of the background access operation.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein determining the availability of the memory includes:
determining, from the first statistical data, response time for the user access operation in the first set of access operations; and
determining the availability of the memory based on the determined response time and first reference response time for the first storage resource pool.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein adjusting the background access operation includes:
in response to the determined response time being more than the first reference response time, performing at least one of the following:
decreasing granularity of the background access operation,
decreasing a scheduling frequency of the background access operation,
reducing the number of parallel threads of the background access operation, and
shortening duration of the background access operations; and
in response to the determined response time being less than second reference response time for the first storage resource pool that is less than the first reference response time, performing at least one of the following:
increasing the granularity of the background access operations,
increasing the scheduling frequency of the background access operations,
increasing the number of parallel threads of the background access operations, and
increasing the duration of the background access operations.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein adjusting the background access operation is performed based on a priority of the background access operation.

9. A device for coordinating access operations for a redundant array of independent disks (RAID), comprising:
at least one processing unit;
at least one memory coupled to the at least one processing unit and storing instructions for execution by the at least one processing unit, the instructions, when executed by the at least one processing unit, causing the device to perform acts including:
obtaining first statistical data of a first set of access operations associated with a first storage resource pool in the RAID and second statistical data of a second set of access operations associated with a second storage resource pool in the RAID, the first set of access operations including a background access operation and a user access operation, and the second set of access operations including at least a user access operation;
determining, based on the first and second statistical data, availability of a memory shared by the first and second storage resource pools; and
adjusting, based on the availability of the memory, the background access operation in the first set of access operations so as to control a capacity of the memory occupied by the background access operation.

10. The device according to claim 9 , wherein obtaining the first statistical data including the following: obtaining at least one of a type, granularity, a scheduling frequency, the number of parallel threads, and duration of the background access operation in the first set of access operations; and obtaining at least one of the number of user access operations, response time for the user access operation, and a timestamp of a last user access operation in the first set of access operations.

11. The device according to claim 9 , wherein obtaining the second statistical data includes:
obtaining at least one of the number of user access operations, response time for the user access operation, and a timestamp of a last user access operation in the second set of access operations.

12. The device according to claim 9 , wherein determining the availability of the memory includes:
determining an available capacity of the memory based on the number of user access operations in the first statistical data and the second statistical data; and
determining a capacity ratio between the available capacity and a total capacity of the memory.

13. The device according to claim 12 , wherein adjusting the background access operation includes:
in response to the capacity ratio being below a first capacity threshold, performing at least one of the following:
decreasing granularity of the background access operation,
decreasing a scheduling frequency of the background access operation,
reducing the number of parallel threads of the background access operation, and
shortening duration of the background access operation; and
in response to the capacity ratio exceeding a second capacity threshold that is greater than the first capacity threshold, performing at least one of the following:
increasing the granularity of the background access operation,
increasing the scheduling frequency of the background access opera

Assignees

• Emc Ip Holding Co Llc

Inventors

• Gao Hongpo
• Gao Jian
• Han Geng
• Kang Jianbin
• Dong Jibing

Classifications

• G06F3/061 Primary

  Improving I/O performance · CPC title

• G06F3/0634

  by changing the state or mode of one or more devices · CPC title

• G06F3/0689 Primary

  Disk arrays, e.g. RAID, JBOD · CPC title

• G06F3/0604

  Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management · CPC title

• G06F3/0659 Primary

  Command handling arrangements, e.g. command buffers, queues, command scheduling · CPC title