Data transfer processing apparatus, data transfer processing method, and computer product

• US 8,229,995 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2009
• Issued: 07/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Miyamae, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tiv, Backhean
• Application Number:
  US12/353,838
• Publication Number:
  US 20090292788A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,287 Days
• Field of Search: 709/200, 709/209, 709/211
• US Class Current: 709/200
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

A computer-readable recording medium stores therein a data transfer processing program that causes a computer capable of accessing plural recording devices to acquire a group of update data for a first recording device among the recording devices and calculate, based on addresses respectively assigned to each data item in the group of update data, an overlap rate of the addresses. Further, based on the overlap rate calculated at the calculating, the computer selects a data transfer scheme from among a synchronous scheme of transmitting the group of update data simultaneously to the first recording device and a second recording device, and a nonsynchronous scheme of transmitting the group of update data to the first recording device and subsequently causing the first recording device to transmit the group of update data to the second recording device; and executes the data transfer scheme selected.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing therein a data transfer processing program that causes a computer capable of accessing a plurality of recording devices to execute:

acquiring a group of update data for a first recording device of the plurality of recording devices;

calculating, based on addresses to which the group of data is to be written and that are respectively assigned to each data item in the group of update data, an overlap rate of the addresses;

selecting, based on the overlap rate calculated at the calculating, a data transfer scheme from among a synchronous scheme of transmitting the group of update data simultaneously to the first recording device and a second recording device, or a nonsynchronous scheme of transmitting the group of update data to the first recording device and subsequently causing the first recording device to transmit the group of update data to the second recording device; and

executing the data transfer scheme selected at the selecting.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein:

the calculating includes calculating the overlap rate based on a ratio of addresses to which plural data items are assigned with respect to a total number of data items in the group of update data, with each data item being assigned an address.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein:

the addresses respectively assigned to each data item of the group of update data are classified into classification groups that each encompass a range of consecutive addresses, and

the calculating includes calculating the overlap rate based on a ratio of a sum of the addresses classified into each classification group into which the addresses of plural data items are classified to a total number of addresses assigned for the group of update data.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein:

the addresses respectively assigned to each data item of the group of update data are classified into classification groups that each encompass a range of consecutive addresses, and

the calculating includes calculating the overlap rate based on a ratio of the classification groups into which a plurality of the addresses are classified to a total number of the classification groups.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein:

the selecting includes selecting the nonsynchronous scheme when the overlap rate is equal to or greater than a threshold, and selecting the synchronous scheme when the overlap rate is lower than the threshold.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing therein a data transfer processing program that causes a computer capable of accessing a plurality of recording devices to execute:

acquiring a group of update data for a first recording device of the plurality of recording devices;

calculating, based on addresses respectively assigned to each data item in the group of update data, an overlap rate of the addresses;

selecting, based on the overlap rate calculated at the calculating, a data transfer scheme from among a synchronous scheme of transmitting the group of update data simultaneously to the first recording device and a second recording device, or a nonsynchronous scheme of transmitting the group of update data to the first recording device and subsequently causing the first recording device to transmit the group of update data to the second recording device;

executing the data transfer scheme selected at the selecting; and

wherein the calculating includes converting an address space of the first recording device into a bit map, and calculating the overlap rate based on a rate of the addresses respectively assigned to the data items in the group of update data on the bit map.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 6, further comprising generating newly a second bit map by converting an address space of the first recording device into a bit map, wherein:

the executing includes recording on the second bit map, a state of transmission of the group of update data to the first recording device, and when at the selecting, a data transfer scheme is re-selected during execution of a process of transferring the group of update data, the executing further includes executing, based on a transmission state on the second bit map, the data transfer scheme newly selected.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing therein a data transfer processing program that causes a computer capable of accessing a plurality of recording devices to execute:

acquiring a group of update data for a first recording device of the plurality of recording devices;

calculating, based on addresses respectively assigned to each data item in the group of update data, an overlap rate of the addresses;

selecting, based on the overlap rate calculated at the calculating, a data transfer scheme from among a synchronous scheme of transmitting the group of update data simultaneously to the first recording device and a second recording device, or a nonsynchronous scheme of transmitting the group of update data to the first recording device and subsequently causing the first recording device to transmit the group of update data to the second recording device;

executing the data transfer scheme selected at the selecting; and

wherein the calculating includes converting, into a hash value, each of the addresses respectively assigned to the data items in the group of update data.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 8, wherein:

the calculating includes converting the hash value into information in a bit map format when a size of an address space of the first recording device is equal to or greater than a threshold.

10. A non transitory data transfer processing apparatus capable of accessing a plurality of recording devices, the data transfer process apparatus comprising:

an acquiring unit that acquires a group of update data for a first recording device of the plurality of recording devices;

a calculating unit that, based on addresses to which the group of data is to be written and that are respectively assigned to each data item in the group of update data, calculates an overlap rate of the addresses;

a selecting unit that based on the overlap rate calculated by the calculating unit, selects a data transfer scheme from among a synchronous scheme of transmitting the group of update data simultaneously to the first recording device and a second recording device, or a nonsynchronous scheme of transmitting the group of update data to the first recording device and subsequently causing the first recording device to transmit the group of update data to the second recording device; and

an executing unit that executes the data transfer scheme selected by the selecting unit.

11. A data transfer processing method of a computer capable of accessing a plurality of recording devices, the data transfer processing method comprising:

acquiring a group of update data for a first recording device of the plurality of recording devices;

calculating, based on addresses to which the group of data is to be written and that are respectively assigned to each data item in the group of update data, an overlap rate of the addresses;

selecting, based on the overlap rate calculated at the calculating, a data transfer scheme from among a synchronous scheme of transmitting the group of update data simultaneously to the first recording device and a second recording device, or a nonsynchronous scheme of transmitting the group of update data to the first recording device and subsequently causing the first recording device to transmit the group of update data to the second recording device; and

executing the data transfer scheme selected at the selecting.