Patent ID: 11960417
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A computer program product comprising one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising instructions configured to cause one or more processors to perform a method comprising:
identifying a deallocated I/O queue of an entity in a storage system based on an identifier in an I/O queue deallocate message received from an admin queue associated with the entity;
broadcasting an Asynchronous Event Request (AER) message to similar entities in the storage system having respective numbers of I/O queues below a maximum I/O queue threshold, wherein the AER message indicates freed resources associated with the deallocated I/O queue that can be used for allocating new I/O queues by the similar entities in the storage system; and
allocating, in response to broadcasting the AER message, a newly allocated I/O queue to one of the similar entities by sending an I/O queue connection message via another admin queue associated with the one of the similar entities.