Techniques for Moving Data between a Network Input/Output Device and a Storage Device

A method comprising:

• receiving, at a network input/output (I/O) device, a data frame including a request to access a storage subsystem maintained at the network I/O device, the storage subsystem including a solid state drive (SSD);
• utilizing one or more buffers maintained in a cache for processor circuitry included in a processor socket at a host device coupled with the network I/O device, the one or more buffers arranged to exchange control information for the request, the control information exchanged with a protocol stack executed by the processor circuitry;
• and
• determining whether to read from or store to the storage subsystem data associated with the request based on the exchanged control information.

A method comprising:

• tagging one or more buffers maintained in a cache for processor circuitry included in a processor socket at a host device, the one or more buffers tagged by a network input/output (I/O) device coupled to the host device to indicate use of the one or more buffers for staging data received or transmitted via one or more network connections coupled to the network I/O device, the data associated with requests to access a storage device controlled by a storage controller coupled to the host device;
• receiving a data frame including a request by a remote device to access the storage device;
• and
• forwarding to or receiving from the one or more tagged buffers data associated with the request based on whether the request is to read the data from the storage device or is to store the data to the storage device.