Load control device

• US 9,086,910 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2011
• Issued: 07/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Fujita, Naotake
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Van
• Application Number:
  US13/576,469
• Publication Number:
  US 20130104131A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,652 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/466 Transaction processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/505 considering the load
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5088 involving task migration
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A load control device 10 for assigning transaction processes to a plurality of computation resources has: a receiver 101 that receives a transaction process request; an assignment controller 102 that selects appropriate assignment destinations to which received transactions are assigned, and then stores the transactions in transmission queues 103 provided for the assignment destinations respectively; a transmitter 104 that transmits transaction data stored in the transmission queues 103 to the assignment destinations; an overflow detector 105 that monitors whether or not the number of transactions accumulated in each of the transmission queues 103 corresponding to the respective assignment destinations exceeds an upper limit; and a reassigning part 106 that, when the number of transactions exceeds the upper limit as a result of the monitoring by the overflow detector 105, reselects assignment destinations to which the transactions stored at the number of transactions exceeding the upper limit are assigned.

Claims

1. A load control device including a processor for assigning transaction processes to a plurality of computation resources, the load control device comprising:

a receiver that receives a transaction process request;

an assignment controller that selects assignment destinations to which received transactions are assigned, and then stores the transactions in transmission queues provided for the assignment destinations respectively, wherein at least one of the transmission queues comprises a hardware storage device;

a transmitter that transmits transaction data stored in the transmission queues to the assignment destinations;

an overflow detector that monitors whether or not the number of transactions accumulated in each of the transmission queues corresponding to the respective assignment destinations exceeds an upper limit; and

a reassigning part that, when the number of transactions exceeds the upper limit as a result of the monitoring by the overflow detector, reselects assignment destinations to which the transactions stored at the number of transactions exceeding the upper limit are assigned,

wherein an ON/OFF state of a power source of each of the computation resources is controlled based on an expected number of transactions, and the assignment controller selects the assignment destinations based on the ON/OFF state of the power source of each of the computation resources.

2. The load control device according to claim 1, wherein based on a data region to be processed in each of the transactions, the assignment destination controller selects an assignment destination having a highest process performance with respect to the data region.

3. The load control device according to claim 1, wherein based on a data region to be processed in each of the transactions, the reassigning part selects an assignment destination having a highest process performance with respect to the data region, from among the assignment destinations in which the number of transactions accumulated in the transmission queues does not exceed the upper limit.

4. The load control device according to claim 1, wherein each of the assignment destination is configured by a combination of processing devices generating lowest power consumptions.

5. The load control device according to claim 1, further comprising a timer that determines a timing at which the overflow detector monitors the number of transactions accumulated in each of the transmission queues corresponding to the assignment destinations, wherein the assignment controller regularly monitors the number of transactions accumulated in the transmission queues in accordance with the timing.

6. A load control method of assigning transaction processes to a plurality of computation resources, the load control method, performed by a processor, comprising the steps of:

receiving a transaction process request;

selecting appropriate assignment destinations to which received transactions are assigned, and then storing the transactions in transmission queues provided for the assignment destinations respectively, wherein at least one of the transmission queues comprises a hardware storage device;

transmitting transaction data stored in the transmission queues to the assignment destinations;

monitoring whether or not the number of transactions accumulated in each of the transmission queues corresponding to the respective assignment destinations exceeds an upper limit; and

when the number of transactions exceeds the upper limit as a result of the monitoring, reselecting assignment destinations to which the transactions stored at the number of transactions exceeding the upper limit are assigned,

wherein an ON/OFF state of a power source of each of the computation resources is controlled based on an expected number of transactions, and the assignment controller selects the assignment destinations based on the ON/OFF state of the power source of each of the computation resources.

7. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a program for causing a computer to function as a load control device for assigning transaction processes to a plurality of computation resources, the program causing functions as:

a receiver that receives a transaction process request;

an assignment controller that selects appropriate assignment destinations to which received transactions are assigned, and then stores the transactions in transmission queues provided for the assignment destinations respectively;

a transmitter that transmits transaction data stored in the transmission queues to the assignment destinations;

an overflow detector that monitors whether or not the number of transactions accumulated in each of the transmission queues corresponding to the respective assignment destinations exceeds an upper limit; and

a reassigning part that, when the number of transactions exceeds the upper limit as a result of the monitoring by the overflow detector, reselects assignment destinations to which the transactions stored at the number of transactions exceeding the upper limit are assigned,

wherein an ON/OFF state of a power source of each of the computation resources is controlled based on an expected number of transactions, and the assignment controller selects the assignment destinations based on the ON/OFF state of the power source of each of the computation resources.