Preventing interoperability conflicts in a shared computing environment

• US 9,928,096 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2015
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bryant, Jay S., Cao, Bin, Carey, James E., Santosuosso, John M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Sisley
• Application Number:
  US14/736,496
• Publication Number:
  US 20160315873A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,020 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/781 Centralised allocation of resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A hypervisor can handle requests from applications in a processing environment, where the processing environment consists of shared computing resources. A system can receive a request from an application, and the hypervisor can determine that the request is one that may result in poor interoperability between the application and the processing environment. The hypervisor can identify a processing solution that is more compatible, and it can fulfill the request using the more compatible option. However, the hypervisor need not alert the application of the modified execution; rather, the hypervisor can communicate to the application that the request has been fulfilled.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for enabling a hypervisor to process requests from applications in a processing environment, the method comprising:

receiving a first request from a first application;

determining the first request matches an interoperability request from a list of interoperability requests, each interoperability request associated with at least one processing solution, and wherein the interoperability requests are requests that will result in poor operability in the processing environment;

identifying a processing solution based on the interoperability request that matches the first request, wherein the processing solution directs where the first request is pinned;

fulfilling the first request with the identified processing solution, and in response to the fulfilling;

communicating a confirmation of the fulfilled first request to the first application;

logging the first request, the interoperability request that matches the first request, and the identified processing solution;

tracking a number of requests that match a particular interoperability request for each particular interoperability request on the list of interoperability requests over a predetermined period; and

transmitting the number of requests that match the particular interoperability request and an identity of the particular interoperability request to an owner of the first application.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the identified processing solution is to ignore the first request.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a second request from the first application;

determining the second request matches as least one interoperability request from the list of interoperability requests;

identifying another processing solution based on the interoperability request that matches the second request;

fulfilling the second request with the identified another processing solution;

communicating a confirmation of the fulfilled second request to the first application in response to the fulfilling.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a set of requests, that the list of interoperability requests comprises, are determined based on an interoperability metric.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the list of interoperability requests is refined periodically by applying the interoperability metric to the set of requests.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the list of interoperability requests is predetermined.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising notifying the owner of the application based on the determining the first request matches the interoperability request from the list of interoperability requests.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating interoperability data specific to the first request to the first application, the data including an identity of the first request and the identified processing solution.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing environment is a shared computing resource environment.