Patent ID: 9645747
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer system for allocating alias devices in a parallel access volume environment, the method comprising: one or more computer processors; one or more computer readable storage media; program instructions stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to receive an input/output (I/O) request that indicates a priority for performing the received I/O request by a storage controller; program instructions to, responsive to determining that a base device is not available to handle the received I/O request, determine whether the received I/O request is eligible for performance throttling based on the priority for performing the received I/O request, throttling information received from the storage controller for a previous I/O request, and one or more characteristics of the received I/O request, wherein the one or more characteristics of the received I/O request include: types of write operations for the received I/O request, types of read operations for the received I/O request, and amounts of data involved in one or more write operations or read operations for the received I/O request; program instructions to transmit the received I/O request to the storage controller with an indication of whether the received I/O request is eligible for performance throttling; program instructions to allocate one or more of a plurality of alias devices to the base device based on the priority for performing the received I/O request and a number of the plurality of alias devices in use; program instructions to, responsive to determining that the throttling information received from the storage controller for the previous I/O request indicates that a request type of the received I/O request is not being throttled, determine whether the received I/O request is a new request; and program instructions to, responsive to determining that the received I/O request is a new request, flag a control block representing the base device, indicating that the received I/O request is eligible for performance throttling.