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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:
Feb. 16, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 16, 2014
Applicants:

Gaurav Chawla, Austin, TX (US);

Robert Wayne Hormuth, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Shyamkumar T. Iyer, Austin, TX (US);

Duk M. Kim, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Inventors:

Gaurav Chawla, Austin, TX (US);

Robert Wayne Hormuth, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Shyamkumar T. Iyer, Austin, TX (US);

Duk M. Kim, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 13/32 (2006.01); G06F 12/10 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/4403 (2013.01); G06F 9/4856 (2013.01); G06F 12/0875 (2013.01); G06F 12/1081 (2013.01); G06F 13/32 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2212/303 (2013.01); G06F 2212/657 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for I/O acceleration using an I/O accelerator device on a virtualized information handling system include pre-boot configuration of first and second device endpoints that appear as independent devices. After loading a storage virtual appliance that has exclusive access to the second device endpoint, a hypervisor may detect and load drivers for the first device endpoint. The storage virtual appliance may then initiate data transfer I/O operations using the I/O accelerator device. The data transfer operations may be read or write operations to a storage device that the storage virtual appliance provides access to. The I/O accelerator device may use direct memory access (DMA).


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