METHOD FETCHING/PROCESSING NVMe COMMANDS IN MULTI-PORT, SR-IOV OR MR-IOV SUPPORTED PCIe BASED STORAGE DEVICES

摘要

A method of fetching I/O commands received from a host in a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) device includes; assigning priority to PCIe functions in the host, fetching a PCIe function from among the PCIe functions based on an assigned priority, selecting a host command queue associated with the selected PCIe function, and indicating the selected host command queue, as well as a number of commands to be fetched from the selected command queue.

主权项

1. A method fetching input/output (I/O) commands received from a host in a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) device, the method comprising:
assigning priority to PCIe functions in the host; fetching a PCIe function from among the PCIe functions based on an assigned priority; selecting a host command queue associated with the selected PCIe function; and indicating the selected host command queue, as well as a number of commands to be fetched from the selected command queue.