International Business Machines Corporation
WRITE SORT MANAGEMENT IN A MULTIPLE STORAGE CONTROLLER DATA STORAGE SYSTEM

Abstract:

In one aspect of write sort management in accordance with the present disclosure, a write sort task related to write sorting a write list of data units to be destaged to storage, is assigned to a storage controller to improve the load balance among plural storage controllers. In one embodiment, available processing capacities of each of the storage controllers is determined by, for example, polling each of the storage controllers. A write sort task may then be assigned to a selected storage controller as a function of determined available processing capacities of each of the storage controllers to improve the load balance among the storage controllers. Other aspects and advantages are provided, depending upon the particular application.