METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING SHARED RESOURCE ACCESS QUOTA

摘要

A counter for tracking current shared resource access quota requests of node s in a mufti-node system is circulated among the nodes. A quota for a given node is determined as a function of the counter, the needs of the given node and a variable indicative of total access quota for all nodes combined. The determined quota is then allocated to the given node, i.e.; the node is allowed to access the shared resource in accordance with the determined quot a.