System and method for creation/deletion of linear block address table entries for direct I/O
First Claim
1. A method, in an input/output (I/O) adapter, comprising:
- receiving, from an application instance, a user space operation requesting creation of a resource allocation for direct linear block address (LBA) based input/output (I/O) between the application instance and a physical storage device;
creating the resource allocation in a LBA table entry, of an LBA table, associated with the I/O adapter and the application instance; and
returning results of the creation of the resource allocation to the application instance.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a system, method, and computer program product that enables application instances to pass block mode storage requests directly to a physical I/O adapter without run-time involvement from the local operating system or hypervisor. In one aspect of the present invention, a mechanism is provided for handling user space creation and deletion operations for creating and deleting allocations of linear block addresses of a physical storage device to application instances. For creation, it is determined if there are sufficient available resources for creation of the allocation. For deletion, it is determined if there are any I/O transactions active on the allocation before performing the deletion. Allocation may be performed only if there are sufficient available resources and deletion may be performed only if there are no active I/O transactions on the allocation being deleted.
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20 Claims
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1. A method, in an input/output (I/O) adapter, comprising:
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receiving, from an application instance, a user space operation requesting creation of a resource allocation for direct linear block address (LBA) based input/output (I/O) between the application instance and a physical storage device;
creating the resource allocation in a LBA table entry, of an LBA table, associated with the I/O adapter and the application instance; and
returning results of the creation of the resource allocation to the application instance. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on computing device, causes the computing device to:
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receive, from an application instance, a user space operation requesting creation of a resource allocation for direct linear block address (LBA) based input/output (I/O) between the application instance and a physical storage device;
create the resource allocation in a LBA table entry, of an LBA table, associated with an I/O adapter and the application instance; and
return results of the creation of the resource allocation to the application instance. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A data processing system, comprising:
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a host system; and
a physical storage device coupled to the host system, wherein the host system;
receives, from an application instance running on the host system, a user space operation requesting creation of a resource allocation for direct linear block address (LBA) based input/output (I/O) between the application instance and the physical storage device;
creates the resource allocation in a LBA table entry, of an LBA table, associated with the I/O adapter and the application instance; and
returns results of the creation of the resource allocation to the application instance. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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