Granted Patent B2

US 12,236,281 · App. 17/471,263 · Granted Feb 25, 2025

Inventors: Sumedh Wasudeo Sathaye (Austin, TX); Gaurav Chawla (Austin, TX); John S. Harwood (Boston, MA)

Assignee: Dell Products L.P.

G06F9/5077

Abstract

Claims (68)

1. A system for providing bare-metal system (BMS) resource partitioning, comprising:

a system control processor;

a BMS;

a partitioning configuration data structure; and

a system control processor manager,

wherein the system control processor manager is programmed to:

receive a partitioning manifest, wherein the partitioning manifest is based on intent;

using the intent of the partitioning manifest, identify the BMS as having hardware resources to service the partitioning manifest;

based on the identifying, send a partitioning request to a system control processor of the BMS that specifies a composed partition,

wherein the system control processor is programmed to:

receive the partitioning request;

in response to the partitioning request:

identify a set of physical partitions of the BMS that are capable of servicing the partitioning request based on the composed partition;

update the partitioning configuration data structure based on the set of physical partitions and the composed partitions,

wherein the partitioning configuration data structure comprises a partition entry that specifies:

the composed partition,

the set of physical partitions allocated to the composed partition,

memory bounds for the composed partition, and

configuration of a memory management unit to specify usage of the memory bounds during operation of the composed partition; and

implement the composed partition based on the set of physical partitions using the partition entry of the partitioning configuration data structure.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein implementing the composed partition comprises:

obtaining, by the system control processor, a data processing request corresponding to the composed partition;

identifying the composed partition using the partitioning configuration data structure; and

servicing the data processing request using the set of physical partitions.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the data processing request specifies: processing data to obtain processed data using a processor of the set of physical partitions, and storing the processed data in a storage device of the set of physical partitions.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein a physical partition of the set of physical partitions comprises at least one of: a set of processor cores, a memory controller, and a storage device.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the BMS comprises a second physical partition, and wherein the composed partition does not comprise the second physical partition.

6. A method for providing computer implemented services using information handling systems, comprising:

receiving, by a system control processor manager, a partitioning manifest, wherein the partitioning manifest is based on intent;

using the intent of the partitioning manifest, identifying a bare-metal system (BMS) as having hardware resources to service the partitioning manifest;

based on the identifying, sending a partitioning request to a system control processor of the BMS that specifies a composed partition;

receiving, by the system control processor, the partitioning request;

in response to the partitioning request:

identifying a set of physical partitions of a bare-metal system (BMS) that are capable of servicing the partitioning request based on the composed partition;

updating a partitioning configuration data structure based on the set of physical partitions and the composed partition,

wherein the partitioning configuration data structure comprises a partition entry that specifies:

the composed partition,

the set of physical partitions allocated to the composed partition, memory bounds for the composed partition, and

configuration of a memory management unit to specify usage of the memory bounds during operation of the composed partition; and

implementing the composed partition based on the set of physical partitions using the partition entry of the partitioning configuration data structure.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein implementing the composed partition comprises:

obtaining, by the system control processor, a data processing request corresponding to the composed partition;

identifying the composed partition using the partitioning configuration data structure; and

servicing the data processing request using the set of physical partitions.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the data processing request specifies: processing data to obtain processed data using a processor of the set of physical partitions, and storing the processed data in a storage device of the set of physical partitions.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein a physical partition of the set of physical partitions comprises at least one of: a set of processor cores, a memory controller, and a storage device.

10. The method of claim 6 , wherein the BMS comprises a second physical partition, and wherein the composed partition does not comprise the second physical partition.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method for dynamically instantiating composed partitions, the method comprising:

receiving, by a system control processor, a partitioning request from a system control processor manager that specifies a composed partition,

wherein the partitioning request is generated by the system control processor in response to receiving a partitioning manifest,

wherein the partitioning manifest is based on intent, and

wherein the intent is used to identify a bare-metal system (BMS) as having hardware resources to service the partitioning manifest;

in response to the partitioning request:

identifying a set of physical partitions of the BMS that are capable of servicing the partitioning request based on the composed partition;

updating a partitioning configuration data structure based on the set of physical partitions and the composed partition,

wherein the partitioning configuration data structure comprises a partition entry that specifies:

the composed partition,

the set of physical partitions allocated to the composed partition, memory bounds for the composed partition, and

configuration of a memory management unit to specify usage of the memory bounds during operation of the composed partition; and

implementing the composed partition based on the set of physical partitions using the partition entry of the partitioning configuration data structure.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the system control processor is further programmed to:

wherein implementing the partition comprises:

obtaining, by the system control processor, a data processing request corresponding to the partition;

identifying the partition using the partitioning configuration data structure; and

servicing the data processing request using the set of physical partitions.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the data processing request specifies: processing data to obtain processed data using a processor of the set of physical partitions, and storing the processed data in a storage device of the set of physical partitions.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , a physical partition of the set of physical partitions comprises at least one of: a set of processor cores, a memory controller, and a storage device.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the BMS comprises a second physical partition, and wherein the composed partition does not comprise the second physical partition.

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