STORAGE AND NETWORK INTERFACE MEMORY SHARE

摘要

A method of operating a storage system is disclosed. The method may include: receiving an I/O request through a network interface involving writing or retrieving a payload data from a storage system; communicating control information of the I/O request to a host processor system without communicating the payload data to the host processor system; receiving a storage access instruction from the host processor system to either retrieve the payload data or to write the payload data; accessing a storage device through a storage interface to execute the storage access instruction involving the payload data; and responding to the I/O request through the network interface without transferring the payload data to a host memory of the host processor system.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving an I/O request through a network interface involving writing or retrieving payload data from a storage system; communicating control information of the I/O request to a host processor system without communicating the payload data to the host processor system; receiving a storage access instruction from the host processor system to either retrieve the payload data or to write the payload data; accessing a storage device through a storage interface to execute the storage access instruction involving the payload data; and responding to the I/O request through the network interface without transferring the payload data to a host memory of the host processor system.