INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM

• US 20090327624A1
• Filed: 06/29/2009
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Nobuharu, Nishumura, Hajime, Suzuki, Kazuya, Tamura, Tetsuya
• Application Number:
  US12/493,402
• Publication Number:
  US 20090327624A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/158
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1435 using file system or storage system metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0804 with main memory updating G06F12/0806 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0866 for peripheral storage systems, e.g. disk cache

Abstract

An information processing apparatus controls writing to a disk. A command reception section receives from a host apparatus a write command and a control command controlling a cache about the write command. A queue storage section stores a queue for the write command and the control command received by the command reception section. A control section determines which of a first write command for data of a file and a second write command for metadata corresponding to the file the write command stored in the queue is, groups, when the control command is received by the command reception section, at least one first write command and at least one second write command that have been received and stored in the queue, assigns an execution sequence numbers to the first write command and the second write command in the group such that data write of the first write command to the disk is executed in priority to the data write of the second write command, and controls execution of the first write command and the second write command according to the assigned execution sequence numbers.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus controlling writing to a disk, comprising:

a command reception section to receive from a host apparatus a write command and a control command controlling a cache about the write command;

a queue storage section to store a queue for the write command and the control command received by the command reception section; and

a control section to determine which of a first write command for data of a file and a second write command for metadata corresponding to the file the write command stored in the queue is, group, when the control command is received by the command reception section, at least one first write command and at least one second write command that have been received and stored in the queue, assign an execution sequence number to the first write command and the second write command in the group such that data write of the first write command to the disk is executed in priority to data write of the second write command, and control execution of the first write command and the second write command according to the assigned execution sequence number.

2. The information processing apparatus as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the first write command targets continuous data, and

wherein the control section determines the first write command, that is determined plurally, for writing the data of the file to successive positions in a storage area of the disk, and assigns link information in the queue to the plurality of first write commands.

3. The information processing apparatus as set forth in claim 2, further comprising

a buffer section to store the data of the file of each of the plurality of first write commands in the queue,

wherein, when the command reception section receives a new first write command for writing update data with respect to the data of the file stored in the buffer section, the control section assigns, to the first write command in the queue, information for prohibiting a response to a read command for the data of the file received from the host apparatus.

4. The information processing apparatus as set forth in claim 3,

wherein the disk is spatially divided into a first storage area in which the data of the file is written and a second storage area in which the metadata is written, and

wherein the control section assigns the execution sequence number to each of the plurality of first write commands for writing the data of the file to successive positions in the first storage area such that the data of the file is written in the first storage area from a side thereof closer to the second storage area of the disk, and controls execution of each of the plurality of first write commands according to the assigned execution sequence number.

5. A method of controlling an information processing apparatus controlling writing to a disk, comprising:

receiving from a host apparatus a write command and a control command controlling a cache about the write command and storing the write command and the control command in a queue;

determining which of a first write command for data of a file and a second write command for metadata corresponding to the file the write command stored in the queue is;

grouping, when the control command is received at the reception step, at least one first write command and at least one second write command that have been received and stored in the queue;

assigning an execution sequence number to the first write command and the second write command in the group such that data write of the first write command to the disk is executed in priority to data write of the second write command; and

executing the first write command and the second write command according to the assigned execution sequence numbers.

6. A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, control writing to a disk and cause the computer which is built in an information processing apparatus to function as:

a command reception section to receive from a host apparatus a write command and a control command controlling a cache about the write command;

a queue storage section to store a queue for the write command and the control command received by the command reception section; and

a control section to determine which of a first write command for data of a file and a second write command for metadata corresponding to the file the write command stored in the queue is, group, when the control command is received by the command reception section, at least one first write command and at least one second write command that have been received and stored in the queue when the command reception section receives the control command, assign an execution sequence number to the first write command and the second write command in the group such that the first write command is executed in priority to data write of the second write command, and control execution of the first write command and the second write command according to the assigned execution sequence number.