Storage protocol emulation in a peripheral device

US11892964B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD. · IL

Inventors

• Oren Duer · Kochav Yair Tzur Yigal, IL
• Dror Goldenberg · Jerusalem, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 25, 2021
• Grant date: Feb 6, 2024
• Expiry date: Dec 23, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A peripheral device includes a host interface and processing circuitry. The host interface is configured to communicate with a host over a peripheral bus. The processing circuitry is configured to expose on the peripheral bus a peripheral-bus device that communicates with the host using a bus storage protocol, to receive, using the exposed peripheral-bus device, Input/Output (I/O) transactions that are issued by the host, and to complete the I/O transactions for the host in accordance with a network storage protocol, by running at least part of a host-side protocol stack of the network storage protocol.