摘要:
A method according to one embodiment may include transmitting a frame from a transmitting device to a receiving device via a communication network of a data storage system, enabling an encoding operation of the transmitting device to encode decoded data into encoded data and transmitting the encoded data in the frame via the communication network if the receiving device has a decoding operation capable of decoding the encoded data into the decoded data, and disabling the encoding operation and transmitting the decoded data in the frame via the communication network to the receiving device if the receiving device does not have the decoding operation capable of decoding the encoded data into the decoded data. Of course, many alternatives, variations, and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.
摘要:
Provided are a method, expander, system, and program for receiving a transmission at an interface supporting multiple storage interconnect architectures having different transmission characteristics, and wherein the transmission uses one of the supported storage interconnect architectures. The interface forwards the transmission to the enclosure management device. The enclosure management device processes the transmission using one of a plurality of transport layers supported at the enclosure management device, wherein the enclosure management device includes at least one transport layer used with each supported storage interconnect architecture.
摘要:
A method according to one embodiment may include discovering, at least in part, by an integrated circuit of at least one communication protocol via which at least one device external to the integrated circuit is capable of communicating. In this embodiment, the integrated circuit may be capable of communicating in accordance with a plurality of different communication protocols. The method according to this embodiment may also include selecting, at least in part, by the integrated circuit of the at least one communication protocol to use to communicate with the at least one device. Of course, many alternatives, variations, and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.
摘要:
An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to process a plurality of I/O sequences associated with a storage device. A task context pre-fetch engine pre-fetches a task context from a task context memory based on a pre-fetch request. At least a multi-threaded transmit transport layer (T×TL) processes the plurality of I/O sequences from an I/O pool simultaneously. The multi-threaded T×TL generates the pre-fetch request and one or more frames from the plurality of I/O sequences. A switch fabric and controller routes the frame to a link layer associated with the storage device.
摘要:
According to one embodiment, a host bus adapter (HBA) is disclosed. The HBA includes one or more link layer engines, one or more ports, each of the one or more ports associated with one of the one or more link layer engines and token passing logic having a shift register associated with each of the one or more link layer engines. A first link layer engine enables a first storage device coupled to an associated port to spin-up whenever the first link layer engine detects that a first shift register has a first value.
摘要:
According to one embodiment, a device is disclosed. The device includes a first protocol engine (PE) to process tasks to be forwarded to a first remote node, a remote node search unit (RNSU) having a three-dimensional (3-D) task list corresponding to tasks to be forwarded to the two or more sub-nodes, and a connection pointer to maintain a connection between the first PE and the first remote node.
摘要:
An expander device is configurable to identify itself as an end device and not an edge expander device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
摘要:
A device includes a task context controller, at least one transport engine connected to the task context controller, and at least one comparator connected to the transport engine. The comparator to compare a data offset from a receive frame with a current data offset and a result is used to determine frame processing order.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for managing task context are provided. Upon initialization, a protocol engine provides context resources available for processing tasks to a task issuer. Based on available context resources, the task issuer creates and manages a free list of available task context indices and assigns an index to a task prior to storing task context in a context memory accessible to both the task issuer and the protocol engine and issuing the task to the protocol engine.
摘要:
According to one embodiment, a storage device is disclosed. The storage device includes a port having one or more lanes and a direct memory access (DMA) Descriptor Manager (DM). The DM generates and tracks completion of descriptors. The DM includes a first completion lookup table to track one or more fields of an input/output (I/O) context received at a first lane.