Method and/or apparatus to sort request commands for SCSI multi-command packets

An apparatus comprising:

• means for (i) receiving one or more IO requests and (ii) presenting said IO requests in response to a trigger signal;
• means for serially coalescing said IO requests in response to a device identification (ID) of said IO requests;
• means for presenting said coalesced IO requests as one or more respective context queue requests in response to said trigger signal;
• means for generating said trigger signal when a current queue count is equal to a maximum queue depth;
• and
• means for sequentially presenting said context queue requests in response to said trigger signal.

A method for coalescing input/output (IO) requests comprising the steps of:

• (A) receiving one or more of said IO requests and presenting said IO requests in response to a trigger signal;
• (B) serially coalescing said IO requests in response to a device identification (ID) of said IO requests;
• (C) presenting said coalesced IO requests as one or more respective context queue requests in response to said trigger signal;
• (D) generating said trigger signal when a current queue count is equal to a maximum queue depth;
• and
• (E) sequentially presenting said context queue requests in response to said trigger signal.