Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070226332
Filing Date: March 24, 2006
Inventors: Ralph Becker-Szendy, Richard Golding, Caixue Lin, Theodore Wong, Ahmed Omer
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
Current U.S. Classification: 709, 709/224000, 709/223000
View Prior Art for Claim 00010
The method of Claim 8, wherein selecting the I/O further comprises selecting one of the pools with a least amount of I/O traffic according to a pool fair share estimator, if the deadline of the selected candidate head I/O is not in the past.
