Interface for heterogeneous PCI-e storage devices
AssigneeLSI Corporation
InventorsTimothy E. Hoglund, Gary J. Piccirillo, James K. Yu
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AssigneeLSI Corporation
InventorsTimothy E. Hoglund, Gary J. Piccirillo, James K. Yu
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Disclosed is a storage device interface. The storage device interface includes a plurality of PCIe device request engines. These PCIe device request engines receive I/O commands formatted for a respective one of a plurality of PCIe storage device communication standards. The storage device interface also includes a plurality of PCIe device completion engines. These PCIe device completion engines receive notifications of command completions from a plurality of PCIe storage devices that communicate using the aforementioned plurality of PCIe storage device communication standards. These notifications are validated. If an error is detected, processing of notifications of command completions associated with that device are blocked until the error is resolved. The plurality of PCIe device request engines and the PCIe device completion engines operate concurrently to process received I/O commands and received command completions.
A storage device interface, comprising:
A method of providing communication to a plurality of PCIe storage devices that operate using a plurality of Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) storage device communication standards, comprising:
A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) storage controller operable to communicatively couple a host system to a plurality of Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) storage devices, the storage controller comprising:
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