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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2017
Toshiba Memory Corporation, Minato-ku, JP;
TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION, Minato-ku, JP;
Abstract
A switch according to an embodiment includes a first PCIe interface that can be connected to a host on the basis of a PCIe standard. In addition, the switch includes a plurality of second PCIe interfaces that can be connected to a plurality of storage devices, respectively, on the basis of the PCIe standard. The switch further includes a control unit that distributes an access request which is comply with an NVMe standard and is transmitted from the host to any one of the plurality of second PCIe interfaces. The distribution includes a process of constructing an NVMe command of the access request and a process of constructing a data transmission descriptor list of the access request.