Patent ID: 9513825
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A storage system, coupled to a host computer, comprising: a channel adaptor including a local router including a processor number information and a transfer list index/processor number information, and a protocol processor transmitting and receiving data between the host computer and the local router; a plurality of storage nodes each including a processor; and a plurality of disk drives to be provided as one or more logical units to the host computer, by the plurality of storage nodes; wherein the processor number information includes at least one logical unit number and at least one processor number of the storage nodes; wherein the transfer list index/processor number information includes the processor number for identifying a processor from among the processors of the plurality of storage nodes, and index information for identifying a transfer list including instruction which the processor sends to the protocol processor; wherein the local router determines a first processor from among the processors of the plurality of storage nodes which is to be a transfer destination of a write request based on the processor number information in response to the write request from the host computer through the protocol processor; wherein the first processor generates and sends to the protocol processor, a first transfer list which includes instruction for processing, and generates first index information which is an index of the first transfer list upon receiving the write request.