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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2014
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Sie Pook Law, San Jose, CA (US);
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for processing a self-steering storage command via a point-to-point communication protocol. A network adapter in a storage node receives an instance of a current command frame directed to a group of storage nodes and performs a storage operation in response to a storage command associated with the current command frame. The network adapter determines whether all storage nodes have received an instance of the current command frame. If all storage nodes have received an instance of the current command frame, then the network adapter transmits a final completion status frame to a computation node that originated the current command frame. Otherwise, the network adapter generates a next instance of the command frame, and transmits the next instance of the current command frame to an additional storage node in the group of storage nodes.