Patent ID: 7003616
Filing Date: 2006-02-21
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A communication control method of exchanging data between an initiator and a target, comprising: a transmitting step of transmitting a read command and/or a write command from the initiator to the target so as not to exceed a total number of commands which can be held in the target, each command corresponding to a designation indicating to which one of a plurality of queues provided in the target the command corresponds; a holding step of holding, in the target, the transmitted read and/or write commands; a queuing step of queuing in the target, a reference to each of the read and/or write commands held in the target into a respective one of the plurality of queues designated by the designation corresponding to each command; and a performing step of performing, in the target, a read operation to read data from a designated location in a memory area of the initiator or a write operation to write data into a designated location in the memory area of the initiator in accordance with the held read or write command.