Method of dynamically adjusting number of task request

• US 20080209418A1
• Filed: 02/26/2007
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Tom, Liu, Win-Harn, Zhang, Ho, Liu, Hong-Liang
• Granted Patent: US 8,051,419 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/505 considering the load

Abstract

A method of dynamically adjusting the number of task requests is provided, which is applicable to an Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) protocol. When a target receives a task request transmitted by an initiator or the target completes the task request, the number of transmissible tasks is calculated according to an average access data volume, an current access data volume, and an allowable access data volume in the target, and returned to the initiator, such that the number of the task requests transmitted simultaneously by the initiator does not exceed the number of transmissible tasks, thereby achieving flow control. The allowable access data volume is obtained through interactive and dynamic adjustment between the target and the initiator.

Claims

1. A method of dynamically adjusting number of task requests, applicable to an Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) protocol, comprising:

transmitting at least one first task request to an target by an initiator;

temporarily storing the first task request by the target;

calculating an average access data volume and a current access data volume by the target according to each access data volume corresponding to all temporarily stored task requests;

calculating an allowable access data volume by the target according to the average access data volume;

calculating a difference between the allowable access data volume and the current access data volume by the target;

setting a number of transmissible tasks by the target according to a quotient of the average access data volume divided by the difference;

transmitting the number of transmissible tasks to the initiator by the target; and

transmitting a second task request less than the number of transmissible tasks to the target by the initiator.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the average access data volume is an average value of each of the access data volumes corresponding to the all task requests temporarily stored in the target.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of calculating an average access data volume further comprises:

setting a maximum statistical number; and

calculating the average access data volume by the maximum statistical number of task requests which are temporarily stored in the target at latest, when a total number of all the task requests temporarily stored in the target is larger than the maximum statistical number.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the current access data volume is a sum of each of the access data volumes of all the task requests temporarily stored in the target.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of calculating an allowable access data volume comprises:

setting a modification step; and

setting the allowable access data volume to be a product of multiplying the modification step by the average access data volume.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

calculating a number of accumulated processed tasks by the target after one of all the temporarily stored task requests is finished; and

increasing the allowable access data volume to recalculate the number of the transmissible tasks, when it is determined that the number of accumulated processed tasks is same as a predetermined threshold value.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the step of increasing the allowable access data volume is setting the allowable data access volume to be a sum of the allowable access data volume and the average access data volume.

8. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the step of increasing the allowable access data volume further comprises:

setting a maximum access data volume;

increasing the allowable access data volume when it is determined that the allowable access data volume is smaller than the maximum access data volume; and

setting the allowable access data volume to be the maximum access data volume when it is determined that the allowable access data volume is larger then the maximum access data volume.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a step of receiving a task deletion request and decreasing the allowable access data volume to recalculate the number of the transmissible tasks.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the step of decreasing the allowable access data volume further comprises:

setting a modification step; and

setting the allowable data access volume to be a result obtained by subtracting a product of multiplying the modification step with the average access data volume from the allowable access data volume.

11. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the step of decreasing the allowable access data volume further comprises:

setting a modification step and a minimum access data volume; and

decreasing the allowable access data volume when it is determined that the allowable data access volume is larger than the minimum access data volume.