Patent ID: 8719457
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A method for data storage, comprising: pre-configuring a hardware-implemented front-end of a storage device with multiple contexts of respective connections conducted between one or more hosts and the storage device, wherein each context includes one or more operational parameters relating to a respective one of the connections; executing in a memory of the storage device, using the hardware-implemented front-end, storage commands that are received in the storage device and are associated with the connections having the pre-configured contexts; and upon identifying a storage command associated with a context that is not pre-configured in the hardware-implemented front-end, triggering software of the storage device to configure the context in the hardware-implemented front-end, and then executing the storage command using the hardware-implemented front-end in accordance with the context configured by the software.