Method, apparatus and system for controlling quality of service of storage system

• US 9,594,518 B2
• Filed: 05/29/2013
• Issued: 03/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhang, Dong
• Primary Examiner(s): Bragdon, Reginald
• Assistant Examiner(s): Faye-Joyner, Hannah A
• Application Number:
  US13/904,776
• Publication Number:
  US 20130268738A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,385 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/061 Improving I/O performance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0619 in relation to data integrity, e.g. data losses, bit errors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0649 Lifecycle management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

The present invention provides a method, an apparatus, and a system for controlling quality of service of a storage system. The method includes: identifying a target data object; acquiring a storage address of the target data object stored in a storage device by searching a file system of the host, wherein the file system contains data mapping the data object to the storage address of the target data object; and sending the storage address to the storage device to instruct the storage device to perform quality of service control on access to the target data object at the storage address. The present invention solves the problems of resource waste and lower quality of service in a QoS control manner, and can satisfy user requirements more accurately.

Claims

1. A method for a host of a storage system to control quality of service of data objects stored in the storage system, comprising:

identifying, by the host, a target data object as a result of access frequency monitoring by the host;

acquiring, by the host, a storage address of the target data object stored in a storage device of the storage system by searching a file system of the host, wherein the file system contains data mapping the target data object to the storage address of the target data object, wherein the storage device is connected to the host and independent from the host; and

sending, by the host, a quality of service (QoS) instruction to the storage device including a logic unit (LU) having a storage space, wherein the QoS instruction includes the storage address that identifies a part of the storage space of the LU, and wherein the QoS instruction contains an object access performance target;

performing, by the storage device, quality of service control on access to the target data object at the storage address, rather than performing quality of service control on the LU;

wherein the step of performing quality of service control comprises the storage device continuously adjusts up to a predefined threshold, a system resource for quality of service control on a future I/O processing of an I/O request at the storage address, according to the object access performance target based on the storage device monitoring of the access to the target data object, when the future I/O processing of the I/O request is received, wherein the system resource includes at least one of;

an I/O priority, cache resource, queue depth, number of queues and a concurrency level.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of identifying a target data object includes:

monitoring, by the host, access frequencies of data objects in the file system, and identifying, by the host, the target data object when an access frequency of a data object of the data objects in the file system reaches a preset value.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

acquiring, by the host, a quality of service control policy corresponding to the target data object; and

generating, by the host, the quality of service instruction according to the storage address and the quality of service control policy.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

acquiring, by the host, a changed storage address of the target data object stored in the storage device by searching the file system, when a storage attribute of the target data object is changed; and

sending, by the host, the changed storage address to the storage device to instruct the storage device to perform quality of service control on access to the target data object at the changed storage address.

5. A storage system, comprising:

a host having a host processor and a host non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including computer-executable instructions for execution by the host processor; and

a storage device connected to the host and independent from the host, the storage device having a storage processor and a storage device non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including computer-executable instructions for execution by the storage processor;

wherein the host storage medium includes instructions to identify a target data object as a result of access frequency monitoring by the host acquire a storage address of the target data object stored in a storage device by searching a file system of the host, wherein the file system contains data mapping the target data object to the storage address of the target data object; and

send a quality of service (QoS) instruction to the storage device to instruct the storage device to perform quality of service control on access to the target data object at the storage address, wherein the storage device includes a logic unit (LU) having a storage space, and wherein the QoS instruction includes the storage address which identifies a part of the storage space of the LU, and wherein the QoS instruction contains an object access performance target; and

wherein storage device storage medium includes instructions to perform quality of service control on access to the target data object at the storage address, rather than performing quality of service control on the LU;

wherein performing quality of service control on access to the target data object at the storage address comprises adjusting up to a predefined threshold, a system resource for quality of service control on a future I/O processing of an I/O request at the storage address, according to the object access performance target based on the storage device monitoring of the access to the target data object, when the future I/O processing of the I/O request is received, wherein the system resource includes at least one of;

an I/O priority, cache resource, queue depth, number of queues and a concurrency level.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the host is configured to monitor access frequencies of data objects in the file system, and identify the target data object of when an access frequency of a data object of the data objects in the file system reaches a preset value.

7. The system according to claim 5, wherein the host is further configured to acquire a quality of service control policy corresponding to the target data object;

and generate the quality of service instruction according to the storage address and the quality of service control policy.

8. The system according to claim 5, wherein the host is further configured to acquire a changed storage address of the target data object stored in the storage device by searching the file system, when a storage attribute of the data object is changed, and send the changed storage address to the storage device to instruct the storage device to perform quality of service control on access to the target data object at changed storage address.