Patent ID: 11940935
Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 21:
22. A method according to claim 18 wherein the functionality residing on the fabric target service is operative to:
a. get the request formatted for the network storage protocol from said functionality residing on the storage device emulator;
b. effect a DMA transfer of RDMA data to a staging buffer in host memory, which actually results in simple copying of the data from one buffer to another in the host, without the functionality residing on the fabric target service being aware of said simple copying;
c. generate a request formatted for a local storage protocol; and
d. post said request formatted for a local storage protocol, generated by the fabric target service, to a locally attached hardware drive formatted for the local storage protocol, which will cause said locally attached storage device to initiate DMAs of data between host buffers and internal flash storage.