Resource management and allocation using history information stored in application's commit signature log

• US 9,507,636 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2015
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Konik, Rafal P., Mittelstadt, Roger A., Muras, Brian R., Olstad, Chad A.
• Primary Examiner(s): WU, BENJAMIN C
• Application Number:
  US14/690,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20160306665A1
• Time in Patent Office: 589 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/466 Transaction processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/48 Program initiating; Program switching, e.g. by interrupt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5005 to service a request
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals

Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards managing computing resources. Managing computing resources can include initializing in a computer system, an application that corresponds to one or more commit signatures, each of the one or more commit signatures correspond to a transaction within the application and determining that a commit signature of one or more commit signatures is saved in a commit block (COB). Managing computing resources can include retrieving, from the COB, in response to determining that the commit signature is saved in the COB, a first set of resource data that corresponds to the commit signature, the first set of resource data contains information for resource usage that corresponds to the application and allocating resources accessible to the computer system based on the first set of resource data.

Claims

1. A system for managing computing resources, the system comprising:

a processor; and

a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by the processor to cause the system to;

initialize in a computer system, an application, the application corresponding to one or more commit signatures, each of the one or more commit signatures corresponding to a transaction within the application;

determine that the one or more commit signatures are not saved in a commit block (COB);

generate, in response to determining that the commit signature is not saved in the COB, a set of resource data by saving the one or more commit signatures, the set of resource data containing information for allocating resources corresponding to the application in the form of one or more commit signatures, wherein the first set of resource data includes;

memory usage, processing power usage, network configurations, file space, statistical information pertaining to the first set of resource data, and timestamps based on the resource usage; and

save the set of resource data in the COB, the set of resource data corresponding to the one or more commit signatures.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the program instructions executable by the processor further cause the system to:

determine one or more resource parameters, wherein the one or more resource parameters correspond to resource usage, in response to the computer system initializing the application; and

save, in response to the one or more resource parameters satisfying a threshold, the commit signature to the COB, the COB including a record of one or more commit operations performed by the system.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the program instructions executable by the processor further cause the system to:

save one or more COBs to a multi-transactional commit block (MTCOB), the MTCOB including a record of one or more COB transactions.

4. The system of claim 3, further comprising:

analyze one or more commit signatures in the MTCOB, wherein the one or more commit signatures correspond to one or more changes in an amount of resources used by the computer system over time for executing a corresponding application;

forecast resource requirements in the application; and

manage and allocate resources, in response to initializing the application based on the resource requirements, wherein the application contains a corresponding COB.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the MTCOB corresponds to a virtual machine (VM), the one or more COBs saved in a particular MTCOB according to one or more applications running on the VM, each application corresponds to a COB.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the program instructions executable by the processor further cause the system to:

save one or more MTCOBs in a COB pool, the COB pool includes a record of one or more MTCOBs.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the COB pool is managed by a hypervisor, the hypervisor managing one or more virtual machines.

8. A computer program product for managing computing resources, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions executable by a computer to perform a method comprising:

initializing in a computer system, an application, the application corresponding to one or more commit signatures;

determining that the one or more commit signatures are not saved in a commit block (COB);

generating, in response to determining that the commit signature is not saved in the COB, a set of resource data by saving the one or more commit signatures, the set of resource data containing information for allocating resources corresponding to the application in the form of one or more commit signatures, wherein the first set of resource data includes;

memory usage, processing power usage, network configurations, file space, statistical information pertaining to the first set of resource data, and timestamps based on the resource usage; and

saving the set of resource data in the COB, the set of resource data corresponding to the one or more commit signatures.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the program instructions are executable by the computer to perform the method further comprising:

determining one or more resource parameters, wherein the one or more resource parameters correspond to resource usage, in response to the computer system initializing the application; and

saving, in response to the one or more resource parameters satisfying a threshold, the commit signature to the COB, the COB including a record of one or more commit operations performed by the system.