Method, device, and computer readable storage medium for managing redundant array of independent disks

• US 11,579,975 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2019
• Issued: 02/14/2023
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Emc IP Holding Company LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Emc IP Holding Company LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Kang, Jianbin, Gao, Jian, Han, Geng
• Primary Examiner(s): Guyton, Philip
• Application Number:
  US16/579,991
• Publication Number:
  US 20200133775A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,239 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1076 Parity data used in redundant arrays of independent storages, e.g. in RAID systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1084 Degraded mode, e.g. caused by single or multiple storage removals or disk failures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2094 Redundant storage or storage space G06F11/2056 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/81 Threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0611 in relation to response time
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0613 in relation to throughput
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0616 in relation to life time, e.g. increasing Mean Time Between Failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0634 by changing the state or mode of one or more devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0647 Migration mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/065 Replication mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0689 Disk arrays, e.g. RAID, JBOD

Abstract

Techniques manage a redundant array of independent disks. In such a technique, a response time of a first storage device in the RAID is compared to a first threshold. In response to the response time of the first storage device exceeding the first threshold, the first storage device is configured as a pseudo-degraded storage device, such that the pseudo-degraded storage device is responsive to write requests only.

Claims

1. A method of managing a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID), comprising:

comparing a response time of a first storage device in the RAID to a first threshold; and

in response to the response time of the first storage device exceeding the first threshold, configuring the first storage device as a pseudo-degraded storage device, such that the pseudo-degraded storage device is responsive to write I/O requests only, at least in part by;

in response to receiving a read I/O request for reading first data from the pseudo-degraded storage device, reading the first data from a second storage device of the RAID, and

in response to receiving a write I/O request for writing second data to the pseudo-degraded storage device, writing the second data to the pseudo-degraded storage device by writing the second data immediately upon receipt of the write I/O request directly to the first storage device while the first storage device is configured as the pseudo-degraded storage device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first storage device is a storage device in the RAID with the longest response time.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein writing the second data to the pseudo-degraded storage device comprises:

reading, from the second storage device of the RAID, data associated with the write I/O request to calculate parity data; and

writing the parity data to a parity storage device in the RAID.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to the response time of the pseudo-degraded storage device decreasing below a second threshold for a predetermined period of time, configuring the pseudo-degraded storage device as a normal storage device, the second threshold being less than the first threshold.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to the response time of the pseudo-degraded storage device exceeding a third threshold, ignoring a write I/O request for an extent in the pseudo-degraded storage device with a highest write load, the third threshold being greater than the first threshold.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

adding the extent into a list of degraded extents of the pseudo-degraded storage device; and

in response to the number of degraded extents in the list of degraded extents exceeding a predetermined threshold, migrating extents in the pseudo-degraded storage device to a third storage device in the RAID.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

in response to a response time of the extent decreasing below a fourth threshold within a predetermined period of time, performing a data rebuild operation on the extent, the fourth threshold being less than the first threshold.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

in response to the response time of the extent failing to decrease to the fourth threshold within the predetermined period of time, migrating the extent to a spare extent in a fourth storage device in the RAID.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to the response time of the first storage device exceeding the first threshold:

sorting response times of all storage devices in the RAID; and

wherein configuring the first storage as the pseudo-degraded storage device is further responsive to a determination made based on the sorting that the first storage device has a longest response time of all storage devices in the RAID.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the write I/O request is received by the RAID;

and

wherein the second data is written to the pseudo-degraded storage device immediately upon receipt of the write I/O request by the RAID.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein no received read I/Os are sent by the RAID to the storage device while the storage device is configured as the pseudo-degraded storage device.

9. A device for managing a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID), comprising:

a processing unit;

a memory coupled to the processing unit and comprising instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by the processing unit, causing the device to perform acts comprising;

comparing a response time of a first storage device in the RAID to a first threshold; and

in response to the response time of the first storage device exceeding the first threshold, configuring the first storage device as a pseudo-degraded storage device, such that the pseudo-degraded storage device is responsive to write I/O requests only, at least in part by;

in response to receiving a read I/O request for reading first data from the pseudo-degraded storage device, reading the first data from a second storage device of the RAID, and

in response to receiving a write I/O request for writing second data to the pseudo-degraded storage device, writing the second data to the pseudo-degraded storage device by writing the second data immediately upon receipt of the write I/O request directly to the first storage device while the first storage device is configured as the pseudo-degraded storage device.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the first storage device is a storage device in the RAID with the longest response time.

11. The device of claim 9, wherein writing the second data to the pseudo-degraded storage device comprises:

reading, from the second storage device of the RAID, data associated with the write I/O request to calculate parity data; and

writing the parity data to a parity storage device in the RAID.

12. The device of claim 9, wherein the acts further comprise:

in response to the response time of the pseudo-degraded storage device decreasing below a second threshold for a predetermined period of time, configuring the pseudo-degraded storage device as a normal storage device, the second threshold being less than the first threshold.

13. The device of claim 9, wherein the acts further comprise:

in response to the response time of the pseudo-degraded storage device exceeding a third threshold, ignoring a write I/O request for an extent in the pseudo-degraded storage device with a highest write load, the third threshold being greater than the first threshold.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the acts further comprise:

adding the extent into a list of degraded extents of the pseudo-degraded storage device; and

in response to the number of degraded extents in the list of degraded extents exceeding a predetermined threshold, migrating extents in the pseudo-degraded storage device to a third storage device in the RAID.

15. The device of claim 13, wherein the acts further comprise:

in response to a response time of the extent decreasing below a fourth threshold within a predetermined period of time, performing a data rebuild operation on the extent, the fourth threshold being less than the first threshold.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the acts further comprise:

in response to the response time of the extent failing to decrease to the fourth threshold within the predetermined period of time, migrating the extent to a spare extent in a fourth storage device in the RAID.

17. A computer program product having a non-transitory computer readable medium which stores a set of instructions to manage a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID);

the set of instructions, when carried out by computerized circuitry, causing the computerized circuitry to perform a method of;

comparing a response time of a first storage device in the RAID to a first threshold; and

in response to the response time of the first storage device exceeding the first threshold, configuring the first storage device as a pseudo-degraded storage device, such that the pseudo-degraded storage device is responsive to write I/O requests only, at least in part by;

in response to receiving a read I/O request for reading first data from the pseudo-degraded storage device, reading the first data from a second storage device of the RAID, and

in response to receiving a write I/O request for writing second data to the pseudo-degraded storage device, writing the second data to the pseudo-degraded storage device by writing the second data immediately upon receipt of the write request directly to the first storage device while the first storage device is configured as the pseudo-degraded storage device.