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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2016
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Samir Rajadnya, San Jose, CA (US);
Karthik Ramachandran, Cupertino, CA (US);
Todd Wilde, Palo Alto, CA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
One or more virtual functions is exposed via a shared communication interface. A plurality of I/O buffers shared across said virtual functions are provided. For each of said one or more virtual functions, a corresponding submission queue comprising one or more virtual submission queue entries (SQEs) is used, wherein a memory access device is configured to: receive data pushed to the memory access device by a client host system, store the data in an allocated one of the I/O buffers, receive a submission queue entry (SQE) that invokes one of said virtual functions with respect to the data, and use a corresponding one of the plurality of logic circuits that is associated with the invoked virtual function to perform the virtual function with respect to the data as stored in the allocated I/O buffer.