Command forwarding: a method for optimizing I/O latency and throughput in fibre channel client/server/target mass storage architectures
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Dec 10, 2002
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Oct 30, 1998
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An interface controller for a communications network port that includes support for an efficient client/server protocol for exchanging data between client computers and target mass storage devices. The interface controller includes support to allow a server computer to forward a read or write command from a client computer to a target mass storage device containing the identification of a client computer as the source of the read or write command. Interface controller support also allows a clients computer to receive response to messages elicited by a read and write command transmitted to a server computer directly from a target mass storage device by copying the identification of the mass storage target device into a data structure within the interface controller to which subsequent identifications within subsequent data and status messages received from the target mass storage device are compared. The client/server protocol eliminates redundant data transfers and eliminates storing and forwarding of data by a server computer.
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