Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1998-12-18
2000-04-11
Black, Thomas G.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707 10, 707103, 707104, 707200, 707202, 707203, 707204, 709200, G06F 1730
Patent
active
060498080
ABSTRACT:
When a client computer requests data from a disk or similar device at a server computer, the client exports the memory associated with an allocated read buffer by generating and storing one or more incoming MMU (IMMU) entries that map the read buffer to an assigned global address range. The remote data read request, along with the assigned global address range is communicated to the server node. At the server, the request is serviced by performing a memory import operation, in which one or more outgoing MMU (OMMU) entries are generated and stored for mapping the global address range specified in the read request to a corresponding range of local physical addresses. The mapped local physical addresses in the server are not locations in the server's memory. The server then performs a DMA operation for directly transferring the data specified in the request message from the disk to the mapped local physical addresses. The DMA operation transmits the specified data to the server's network interface, at which the mapped local physical addresses to which the data is transferred are converted into the corresponding global addresses. The specified data with the corresponding global addresses are then transmitted to the client node. The client converts the global addresses in the received specified data into the local physical addresses corresponding to the allocated receive buffer, and stores the received specified data in the allocated receive buffer.
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Pease Marshall C.
Talluri Madhusudhan
Viswanathan Srinivasan
Black Thomas G.
Mizrahi Diane D.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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