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Storage gateway configuring and traffic processing

US8218538B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateNov 25, 2010
Grant dateJul 10, 2012
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Expiry dateNov 25, 2030

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L67/1097
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In one aspect, initial storage system control information is received, and in response a configuration of a storage interface is determined in accordance with the initial storage system control information. Then final storage system control information is accessed via the storage interface and the storage interface is reconfigured in accordance with the final storage system control information. In another aspect, one of a plurality of physical partitions of a physically partitionable symmetric multiprocessor executes a storage control process to control storage traffic, and another one of the physical partitions executes a program to process the storage traffic. The physical partitions are enabled to communicate the storage traffic at least in part via respective input/output controllers coupled to a switch fabric. The partitionable symmetric multiprocessor has programmatically configurable links for selectively isolating shared memory coherency and cache memory coherency transactions between at least some included processors.

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