Method and apparatus to concurrently operate on multiple data movement transactions in a disk array subsystem
US6801954B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 25, 2000 |
| Grant date | Oct 5, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 25, 2020 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F3/0658
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A controller is presented comprising one or more initiators coupled to one or more targets via a transaction bus and a corresponding number of data busses. The initiator(s) receive transaction requests from external logic, buffer the transaction and assign it a unique identifier, which is passed to an appropriate target via the transaction bus. The targets receive and queue the unique identifier until it can process the transaction, at which time it prompts the initiator to provide it the buffered transaction via a data bus dedicated to the target.
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