Method and Apparatus for Allocating Information and Memory

• US 20170093963A1
• Filed: 12/18/2015
• Published: 03/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd (Lenovo Group Ltd.), Lenovo Company Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd (Lenovo Group Ltd.), Lenovo Company Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: LIAN, Zhengjun
• Application Number:
  US14/974,680
• Publication Number:
  US 20170093963A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4286 using a handshaking protocol, e.g. RS232C link
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1008 based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload monitoring of computer activity G06F11/30

Abstract

A method and an apparatus are provided. After the information of the target task to be processed and the information of the target server to process the target task is obtained, an instruction is sent to one or more servers to be configured which are selected from a set of servers other than the target server, in a case that memory space required for the target task is greater than currently available memory space of the target server. The one or more servers are instructed to map at least partial memory of the one or more servers to be configured to preset allocation spaces of the one or more servers to be configured, so that the target server accesses the at least partial memory through accessing the allocation spaces. Low efficiency of data processing due to insufficient server memory space for data storage, or abnormality of data processing due to an infeasible program may be reduced.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

obtaining information of a target task to be processed currently and information of a target server to process the target task; and

sending an instruction to one or more servers to be configured which are selected from a set of servers other than the target server, in a case that memory space required for the target task is greater than currently available memory space of the target server, wherein the instruction is to instruct the one or more servers to be configured to map at least partial memory of the one or more servers to be configured to preset allocation spaces of the one or more servers to be configured, so that the target server accesses the at least partial memory through accessing the allocation spaces.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the memory space required for the target task is determined by one of the following steps:

determining the memory space required to process the target task based on preset correspondence between a type of a task and memory space occupation; and

determining the memory space required to process the target task based on historic memory occupation of the target task, wherein the historic memory occupation is a size of memory space used to process the target task before the determining the memory space required to process the target task based on the historic memory occupation of the target task.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more servers to be configured are selected from the set of servers other than the target server by selecting the one or more servers to be configured with loads meeting a preset condition based on a current load of each server in the set of servers other than the target server.

4. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the preset allocation spaces are memory address spaces in PCIE spaces of the one or more servers to be configured.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

configuring at least one PCIE downlink interface in the one or more servers to be configured as a controllable port of the target server after the one or more servers to be configured map at least partial memory of the one or more servers to be configured to preset allocation spaces of the one or more servers to be configured, so that the target server accesses the memory address space in the PCIE space through the PCIE downlink interface.

6. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor;

a memory that stores instructions executable by the processor to;

obtain information of a target task to be processed currently and information of a target server to process the target task; and

send an instruction to one or more servers to be configured which are selected from a set of servers other than the target server, in a case that a memory space required for the target task is greater than a currently available memory space of the target server, wherein the instruction is to instruct the one or more servers to be configured to map at least partial memory of the one or more servers to be configured to preset allocation spaces of the one or more servers to be configured, so that the target server accesses the at least partial memory through accessing the allocation spaces.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the information of the target task to be processed currently and the information of the target server to process the target task are obtained by one of the following steps:

obtaining information of a memory space required for processing the target task based on preset correspondence between a type of a task and memory space occupation; and

obtaining information of the memory space required for processing the target task based on historic memory occupation of the target task, wherein the historic memory occupation is a size of the memory space required for processing the target task before the obtaining the information of the memory space required for processing the target task.

8. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the one or more servers to be configured are selected from the set of servers other than the target server by selecting, based on a current load of each server in the set of servers other than the target server, one or more servers to be configured with a load meeting a preset condition, in a case that the memory space required for the target task is greater than the currently available memory space in the target server.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the preset allocation spaces are memory address spaces in PCIE spaces in the one or more servers to be configured.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to configure at least one PCIE downlink interface in the one or more servers to be configured as a controllable port of the target server after the one or more servers to be configured map at least partial memory of the one or more servers to be configured to preset allocation spaces of the one or more servers to be configured, so that the target server accesses the memory address space in the PCIE space through the PCIE downlink interface.

11. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor;

a memory that stores programs executable by the processor to;

receive an instruction, wherein the instruction is generated in a case that memory space required for processing a target task is determined greater than a currently available memory space in a target server, wherein the target server is a server to process the target task; and

map, in response to the instruction, at least partial memory in currently available memory to a preset allocation space, wherein the allocation space is accessed by the target server to access the at least partial memory.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the at least partial memory in the currently available memory is mapped, in response to the instruction, to the preset allocation space by mapping an address of the at least partial memory in the currently available memory to a memory address space in a PCIE space.