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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 17, 2020
Applicant:

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, KY;

Inventors:

Sheng Qiu, San Mateo, CA (US);

Fei Liu, San Mateo, CA (US);

Shu Li, San Mateo, CA (US);

Assignee:

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 12/10 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/45545 (2013.01); G06F 12/10 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2212/152 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods accessing a storage device of a host machine. The method can include: receiving, via a first guest flash translation layer (FTL) instance, a first request for accessing the storage device from a first virtual machine running on a host machine, wherein the first request comprises a first physical address of the storage device; transmitting, via the first FTL instance, the first request to a host FTL driver; converting, via the host FTL driver, the first request into a first hardware command; transmitting, via the host FTL driver, the first hardware command to the storage device; and executing, via the solid state drive, the first hardware command.


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