Patent ID: 7882271
Filing Date: 2011-02-01
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A storage system performing a storage transaction associated with an input/output (I/O) command communicated within a network device via a network, the storage system comprising: an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) having an interconnect device selectively coupling a plurality of dedicated purpose function controllers in the ASIC with a list manager in the ASIC; a policy processor that executes an operating system; a peripheral device bus operably coupling the policy processor to the plurality of dedicated purpose function controllers via the list manager and not via the network; and cache lookup logic executed by the policy processor to, in response to the I/O command, communicate with the list manager via the peripheral device bus to access a memory in which data structures are stored to perform a cache lookup for data corresponding to the I/O command.