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Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 23, 2016
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Vijaya Kumar Jakkula, San Jose, CA (US);

Venkata Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0607 (2013.01); G06F 3/0632 (2013.01); G06F 3/0635 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a method includes: assigning a target port to a control path thread of an application to access data stored in a storage device of a data storage system; creating a storage device path corresponding to the target port; running the data path thread to access the data stored in the storage device; and running a control path thread to process a management work request to operate on one of objects including the target port, the storage device path, and the storage device. The control path thread is configured to send the management work request to the data path thread asynchronously. The data path thread is configured to complete the management work request and send a management work request completion response to the control path thread asynchronously.


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