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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2021
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Roland Dreier, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yan Liu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sandeep Mann, Pleasanton, CA (US);
PURE STORAGE, INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Enabling multi-channel communications between controllers in a storage array, including: creating a plurality of logical communications channels between two or more storage array controllers; inserting, into a buffer utilized by a direct memory access ('DMA') engine of a first storage array controller, a data transfer descriptor describing data stored in memory of the first storage array controller and a location to write the data to memory of a second storage array controller; retrieving, in dependence upon the data transfer descriptor, the data stored in memory of the first storage array controller; and writing, via a predetermined logical communications channel, the data into the memory of the second storage array controller in dependence upon the data transfer descriptor.