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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2014
Qlogic, Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Sanjaya Anand, Coto De Caza, CA (US);
Kathy K. Caballero, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
QLOGIC, Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for sending and receiving information in a network are provided. The method includes configuring a port trunk as a PCI-Express function by an adapter, where the port trunk includes a plurality of network links that couple an adapter port to a port of another device; configuring the port of the other device for using the port trunk for sending and receiving information to and from the adapter port; transferring data by the adapter port on a same link for a write operation belonging to a same transaction for writing the data at a storage location; and receiving a confirmation for completing the write operation from the port of the other device after the data is written at the storage location, where the port of the other devices also uses a same link for sending information to the adapter port for the same transaction.