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Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026

Filed:

Apr. 25, 2024
Applicant:

Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Niall Geary, Ballinlough, IE;

Scott Rowlands, Cumming, GA (US);

Philip O'carroll, Monkstown, IE;

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/38 (2006.01); G06F 13/10 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/387 (2013.01); G06F 13/102 (2013.01); G06F 13/4282 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for use in a computing device, the method comprising: obtaining, by a processor of the computing device, an indication of a pool of exchange numbers, the indication of the pool of exchange numbers being obtained from a host bus adapter (HBA) of the computing device; pre-mapping each of a plurality of first slots in a driver memory of the computing device to the pool of exchange numbers, wherein pre-mapping each of the plurality of first slots includes updating a first data structure to map each of the plurality of first slots to a respective one of the exchange numbers in the pool; and using, by the processor, the plurality of first slots to execute one or more exchanges that involve the HBA, the exchanges being initiated after the pre-mapping is performed.


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