Method and apparatus for implementing work request lists

JR Hilland, M Chadalapaka, MR Krause… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
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Half RDMA and half FIFO operations

RS Blackmore, FC Chang, P Chaudhary… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
In a multinode data processing system in which nodes exchange information over a network
or through a switch, a structure and mechanism is provided within the realm of Remote …

Method and apparatus by utilizing platform support for direct memory access remapping by remote DMA (“RDMA”)-capable devices

AS Oztaskin, RS Madukkarumukumana… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
An apparatus and method related to performing Remote Direct Memory Access Request
(“RDMA”) is presented. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises Remote direct memory …

Doorbell mechanism using protection domains

HV Shah, GY Tsao, AL Arizpe, AS Oztaskin - US Patent 7,853,957, 2010 - Google Patents
In accordance with certain other techniques, doorbell information is received. A doorbell
structure address is decoded from the doorbell information. A first protection domain …

Mechanisms for creation/deletion of linear block address table entries for direct I/O

WT Boyd, JL Hufferd, A Mena III, RJ Recio… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
The present invention provides mechanisms that enable application instances to pass block
mode storage requests directly to a physical I/O adapter without run-time involvement from …

Managing system memory resident device management queues

HV Shah, GY Tsao, AL Arizpe, S Hahn… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides
determining if a management queue can be created, and if a management queue can be …

Method of transmitting data between storage virtualization controllers and storage virtualization controller designed to implement the method

TC Chou, WS Huang - US Patent 7,774,514, 2010 - Google Patents
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Processing user space operations directly between an application instance and an I/O adapter

WT Boyd, JL Hufferd, A Mena III, RJ Recio… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
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System and method for providing pooling or dynamic allocation of connection context data

U El Zur, SB Lindsay, KF Fan, SS McDaniel - US Patent 7,852,856, 2010 - Google Patents
This application is a continuation-in-part of US applica tion Ser. No. 10/652,327, filed Aug.
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