Pure Storage, Inc.
System resource utilization balancing

Abstract:

Ensuring the fair utilization of system resources using workload based, time-independent scheduling, including: determining whether an amount of system resource utilization in the storage system has reached a predetermined utilization threshold; and responsive to determining that the amount of system resource utilization in the storage system has reached a predetermined utilization threshold: determining whether one or more entities in the storage system have utilized system resources in excess of their fair share by a predetermined threshold during a time-independent period; and responsive to determining that one or more entities in the storage system have utilized system resources in excess of their fair share by the predetermined threshold during the time-independent period, freezing, at least partially, an amount by which the one or more entities in the storage system have utilized system resources in excess of their fair share.