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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2021
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Zhonghua Zhu, Shanghai, CN;
Wai C. Yim, Merrimack, NH (US);
Peter J. McCann, Mason, NH (US);
Guifeng Tang, Shanghai, CN;
Yechen Huang, Shanghai, CN;
Honggang Li, Shanghai, CN;
Zhenhua Dong, Shanghai, CN;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for submitting unaligned IO data to an alignment-required IO stack of a storage system. The techniques include determining that IO data specified by an IO command contains unaligned IO data, and generating an IOCB and a tunneling IOCB. The IOCB includes information pertaining to the tunneling IOCB and the tunneling IOCB includes information pertaining to a sector-unaligned buffer for storing the IO data. The tunneling IOCB satisfies a sector-alignment requirement of an IO stack. The techniques include, in response to submitting the IO command and the information included in the IOCB to the IO stack, determining that the tunneling IOCB satisfies the sector-alignment requirement of the IO stack; having satisfied the sector-alignment requirement, building a driver command based on the IO command and the information included in the tunneling IOCB; and, transferring, by executing the driver command, the unaligned IO data from the sector-unaligned buffer to a storage device.