POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD USING FABRIC NETWORK AND FABRIC NETWORK SYSTEM USING POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD

• US 20170147056A1
• Filed: 10/12/2016
• Published: 05/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: WOO, Jung-hyo, MAENG, Hyun-joo, KANG, Jeong-uk, BAEK, I-saac
• Granted Patent: US 10,001,827 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3209 Monitoring remote activity, e.g. over telephone lines or network connections
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/324 by lowering clock frequency
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3268 Power saving in hard disk drive
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3275 Power saving in memory, e.g. RAM, cache
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3027 where the computing system component is a bus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3041 where the computing system component is an input/output interface interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units G06F13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3051 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring the presence of processing resources, peripherals, I/O links, software programs verification or detection of system hardware configuration G06F11/2247
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3062 where the monitored property is the power consumption power management in a computing system G06F1/3203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/328 Computer systems status display G06F11/327 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/349 for interfaces, buses
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/81 Threshold
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A power management method includes monitoring a status of an external interface of external interfaces between the fabric network and at least one host, and a status of an internal interface of internal interfaces between the fabric network and at least one storage device of a plurality of storage devices. The power management method further includes calculating aggregate information of bandwidths of internal interfaces of the plurality of storage devices based on the monitoring, the at least one storage device connected to the at least one host. The method further includes adjusting the bandwidths of the internal interfaces such that the aggregate information of the bandwidths of the internal interfaces is within a threshold range, the threshold range based on a bandwidth of the external interface connected to the at least one host.

Claims

1. A power management method using a fabric network, the power management method comprising:

monitoring a status of at least one of a number of external interfaces between the fabric network and at least one host, and monitoring a status of at least one of a plurality of internal interfaces between the fabric network and at least one storage device, the at least one host configured to access the at least one storage device through the fabric network;

calculating aggregate information of bandwidths of the plurality of internal interfaces based on the monitoring of the status of the at least one of the number of external interfaces and the at least one host; and

adjusting the bandwidths of the plurality of internal interfaces such that the aggregate information of the bandwidths of the plurality of internal interfaces is within a threshold range, the threshold range being based on a bandwidth of the at least one of the number of external interfaces connected to the at least one host.

2. The power management method of claim 1, wherein

the monitoring the status of the at least one of the number of external interfaces includes,

detecting the bandwidth of the at least one of the number of external interfaces based on external interface bandwidth configuration information, and

the monitoring the status of the at least of the plurality of internal interfaces includes, detecting the bandwidths of the plurality of the internal interfaces based on internal interface bandwidth configuration information.

3. The power management method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting the bandwidths of the plurality of internal interfaces includes,

setting a first bandwidth of the threshold range as a sum of (i) the bandwidth of the at least one of the number of external interfaces and (ii) a first threshold value, and

setting a second bandwidth of the threshold range as a sum of (i) the bandwidth of the at least one of the number of external interfaces and (ii) a second threshold value, the second threshold value is greater than the first threshold value.

4. The power management method of claim 3, further comprising:

maintaining an input/output performance according to the bandwidth of the at least one of the number of external interfaces based on the first and second threshold values; and

reducing a power consumption by the at least one storage device while maintaining the input/output performance.

5. The power management method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining the first threshold value and the second threshold value based on empirical data.

6. The power management method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting the bandwidths of the plurality of internal interfaces includes,

determining the threshold range based on a correlation between a number of the at least one storage device configured to access the fabric network, an input/output performance of the bandwidths of the plurality of internal interfaces, and power consumption of the at least one storage device.

7. The power management method of claim 1, wherein the calculating calculates the aggregate information of the bandwidths of the plurality of internal interfaces if a plurality of the at least one host access the fabric network.

8. The power management method of claim 7, wherein the adjusting the bandwidths of the plurality of internal interfaces includes,

adjusting the bandwidths of the plurality of internal interfaces based on bandwidths of the number of external interfaces such that the aggregate information of the bandwidths of the plurality of internal interfaces is within the threshold range, the bandwidths of the number of external interfaces connected to the plurality of the at least one host.

9. The power management method of claim 1, further comprising:

mapping groups of a plurality of the at least one storage device to the plurality of the at least one host based on bandwidths of the plurality of the at least one host if the plurality of the at least one host access the fabric network.

10. The power management method of claim 9, wherein the adjusting

adjusts the bandwidths of the plurality of internal interfaces based on the calculated aggregate information of the bandwidth of at least one of the plurality of internal interfaces and the bandwidth of the at least one of the number of external interfaces.

11. The power management method of claim 1, further comprising:

connecting the at least one host and the at least one storage device via an interface, the interface includes one of a Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface, a Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface (SAS), a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) interface, and a network interface.

12. A fabric network system comprising:

a fabric network including a plurality of ports, the fabric network configured to support communication between a host and a plurality of storage devices, the plurality of storage devices connected to access the plurality of ports,

a monitor configured to,

monitor a status of an external interface connected to the host, and

monitor statuses of internal interfaces connected to the plurality of storage devices; and

a controller configured to,

adjust bandwidths of the internal interfaces based on the monitored status of the external interface and the monitored statuses of the internal interfaces such that a bandwidth used by the host is maintained and power consumption of the plurality of storage devices is reduced.

13. The fabric network system of claim 12, wherein the monitor is further configured to,

detect a bandwidth of the external interface based on external interface bandwidth configuration information, and

detect the bandwidths of the internal interfaces based on internal interface bandwidth configuration information from the host.

14. The fabric network system of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to,

calculate aggregate information of the bandwidths of the internal interfaces based on the monitored status of the external interface and the monitored statuses of the internal interfaces, and

adjust the bandwidths of the internal interfaces such that the calculated aggregate information of the bandwidths of the internal interfaces is within a threshold range based on a bandwidth of the external interface.

15. The fabric network system of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to,

map groups of the plurality of storage devices to the host based on the bandwidth used by the host if the host accesses the fabric network, and

adjust the bandwidths of the internal interfaces for the mapped groups of the plurality of storage devices.

16. A power management method comprising:

calculating aggregate information of bandwidths of a plurality of storage devices in a storage system, each of the plurality of storage devices configured to access a host connected to a fabric network in the storage system, and

reducing power consumption of the plurality of storage devices by adjusting bandwidths of internal interfaces between the fabric network and the plurality of storage devices based on (i) the calculated aggregate information of the bandwidths of the plurality of storage devices, and (ii) a bandwidth of an external interface between the host and the fabric network.

17. The power management method of claim 16, wherein the reducing the power consumption of the plurality of storage devices includes,

adjusting the bandwidths of the internal interfaces such that the calculated aggregate information of the bandwidths of the internal interfaces is within a threshold range, the threshold range based on the bandwidth of the external interface.

18. The power management method of claim 17, wherein the adjusting the bandwidths of the internal interfaces includes,

determining whether the threshold range based on the bandwidth of the external interface is further based on (i) a correlation between the plurality of storage devices configured to access the fabric network, (ii) an input-output performance of the bandwidths of the internal interfaces, and (iii) a power consumption value of the plurality of storage devices.

19. The power management method of claim 16, further comprising:

monitoring the bandwidth of the external interface; and

monitoring the bandwidths of the internal interfaces,

wherein the calculating the aggregate information of the bandwidths of the internal interfaces is based on the monitoring of the bandwidth of the external interface and the monitoring of the bandwidths of the internal interfaces.

20. The power management method of claim 16, wherein the reducing the power consumption of the plurality of storage devices includes,

maintaining an input-output performance of the bandwidth of the external interface.