Recovery mechanisms across storage nodes that reduce the impact on host input and output operations

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016335153-A1
Application number	US-201615224361-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 29, 2016
Priority date	May 28, 2014
Publication date	Nov 17, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided are a method, a system, and a computer program product in which a storage controller determines one or more resources that are impacted by an error. A cleanup of tasks associated with the one or more resources that are impacted by the error is performed, to recover from the error, wherein host input/output (I/O) operations continue to be processed, and wherein tasks associated with other resources continue to execute.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method, comprising:
in response to determining that a resource is impacted by an error in an I/O path, determining whether the impacted resource is currently executing I/O; in response to determining that the impacted resource is currently executing I/O, performing an I/O recovery sequence; and in response to determining that the impacted resource is currently not executing I/O, determining whether operations are being performed in a non I/O recovery sequence for the impacted resource.

2 . The method of claim 1 , the method further comprising:
performing a cleanup of tasks associated with the resource that is impacted by the error, to recover from the error.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein:
no communication is made to tasks associated with other resources to indicate that the cleanup is being performed; and no communication is made to a host that has initiated host I/O operations to indicate that the cleanup is being performed.

4 . The method of claim 2 , wherein:
the cleanup of the tasks associated with the resource that is impacted by the error is performed asynchronously.

5 . A system, comprising:
a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor performs operations, the operations comprising:
in response to determining that a resource is impacted by an error in an I/O path, determining whether the impacted resource is currently executing I/O;
in response to determining that the impacted resource is currently executing I/O, performing an I/O recovery sequence; and
in response to determining that the impacted resource is currently not executing I/O, determining whether operations are being performed in a non I/O recovery sequence for the impacted resource.

6 . The system of claim 5 , the operations further comprising:
performing a cleanup of tasks associated with the resource that is impacted by the error, to recover from the error.

7 . The system of claim 6 , wherein:
no communication is made to tasks associated with other resources to indicate that the cleanup is being performed; and no communication is made to a host that has initiated host I/O operations to indicate that the cleanup is being performed.

8 . The system of claim 6 , wherein:
the cleanup of the tasks associated with the resource that is impacted by the error is performed asynchronously.

9 . A computer program product, the computer program product comprising:
a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code configured to perform operations on a storage controller, the operations comprising:
in response to determining that a resource is impacted by an error in an I/O path, determining whether the impacted resource is currently executing I/O;
in response to determining that the impacted resource is currently executing I/O, performing an I/O recovery sequence; and
in response to determining that the impacted resource is currently not executing I/O, determining whether operations are being performed in a non I/O recovery sequence for the impacted resource.

10 . The computer program product of claim 9 , the operations further comprising:
performing a cleanup of tasks associated with the resource that is impacted by the error, to recover from the error.

11 . The computer program product of claim 10 , wherein:
no communication is made to tasks associated with other resources to indicate that the cleanup is being performed; and no communication is made to a host that has initiated host I/O operations to indicate that the cleanup is being performed.

12 . The computer program product of claim 10 , wherein:
the cleanup of the tasks associated with the resource that is impacted by the error is performed asynchronously.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• He Wang Ping
• Juarez Larry
• Kalos Matthew J
• Mccauley John N
• Rasor Louis A
• Rinaldi Brian A
• Sorenson Todd C

Classifications

• G06F11/0727

  in a storage system, e.g. in a DASD or network based storage system (drivers for digital recording or reproducing units G06F3/06; circuits for error detection or correction within digital recording or reproducing units G11B20/18; for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS], H04L67/1097) · CPC title

• G06F11/0793 Primary

  Remedial or corrective actions (recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40) · CPC title

• G06F11/0751

  Error or fault detection not based on redundancy (power supply failures G06F1/30; network fault management H04L41/06) · CPC title

• G06F11/2017

  where memory access, memory control or I/O control functionality is redundant (redundant communication control functionality G06F11/2005; redundant storage control functionality G06F11/2089) · CPC title

• G06F11/079

  Root cause analysis, i.e. error or fault diagnosis (in a hardware test environment G06F11/22; in a software test environment G06F11/36) · CPC title