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System and method for zero copy block protocol write operations

  • US 7,849,274 B2
  • Filed: 04/02/2007
  • Issued: 12/07/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • receiving a write request at a network protocol stack of a storage operating system executing on a storage system, the write request comprising a write command and data to write to a data storage device of the storage system;

    storing the write request into a network memory buffer of the storage system, the network memory buffer referenced by one or more pointers; and

    passing the one or more pointers that reference the network memory buffer to a virtualization system of the storage operating system, the virtualization system processing the write command to write the data to the data storage device.

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