Generating a chain of a plurality of write requests

A system comprising a host in communication with a storage server managing access to a storage, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by the processor to cause the host to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• generating a write request chain including a plurality of write requests directed to storage locations in the storage;
• indicating in a commit field for the write request chain to perform one of first processing to require completing writing a current write request of the write requests in the write request chain to a storage location in the storage before transferring data for a next write request, of the write requests in the write request chain, following the current write request and second processing to transfer data for the next write request before completing transfer of the data for the current write request preceding the next write request;
• and
• sending the write request chain to the storage server to cause the storage server to process the write request chain according to the indication in the commit field of the first processing or the second processing.

A method performed by a host to generate a write chain of write requests to send to a storage server managing access to a storage, comprising

• generating a write request chain including a plurality of write requests directed to storage locations in the storage;
• indicating in a commit field for the write request chain to perform one of first processing to require completing writing a current write request of the write requests in the write request chain to a storage location in the storage before transferring data for a next write request, of the write requests in the write request chain, following the current write request and second processing to transfer data for the next write request before completing transfer of the data for the current write request preceding the next write request;
• and
• sending the write request chain to the storage server to cause the storage server to process the write request chain according to the indication in the commit field of the first processing or the second processing.