System and method for performing virtual device I/O operations

Details System and method for performing virtual device I/O operations System and method for performing virtual device I/O operations

2007-04-10

2010-06-08

Nguyen, Hiep T (Department: 2187)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Shared memory area

Reexamination Certificate

active

07734878

ABSTRACT:
Systems, methods, apparatus and software can make use of separated I/O processors and strategy processors (implemented in hardware and/or software) to perform virtual device I/O operations. I/O processors operating on cluster nodes, storage appliance ports, or other devices can receive I/O operation requests directed to virtual devices, e.g., volumes or virtual logical units. Information about the request is forwarded to a strategy processor, operating independently or as part of larger volume management software where corresponding physical device I/O operations are determined. The physical device I/O operations can include additional information about the operations, e.g., tag information and summary information, for use in processing the virtual device I/O request. The physical device I/O operations are sent back to the I/O processor which executes the operations and/or passes the operation on to the appropriate storage device. I/O completion messages are sent by the I/O processor in parallel to the source of the I/O request (e.g., a host or application) and to the strategy processor, providing an improvement in I/O latency.

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