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- Patent Title: Shared memory mechanism to support fast transport of SQ/CQ pair communication between SSD device driver in virtualization environment and physical SSD
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Application No.: US17874237Application Date: 2022-07-26
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Publication No.: US12050813B2Publication Date: 2024-07-30
- Inventor: Gang Cao , Ziye Yang , Xiaodong Liu , Changpeng Liu
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Compass IP Law PC
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F9/455
Abstract:
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes an accelerator to be coupled to a memory region that the accelerator shares with a virtualization environment comprising a guest OS, a guest VM and an SSD device driver. The accelerator is to forward a submission queue doorbell setting made by the SSD device driver in the shared memory to a corresponding submission queue doorbell in an SSD controller.
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