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Method and system for supporting hardware acceleration for iSCSI read and write operations and iSCSI chimney

  • US 7,921,240 B2
  • Filed: 06/17/2005
  • Issued: 04/05/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for handling data by a TCP offload engine, the method comprising:

  • pre-registering at least one buffer with hardware;

    receiving an iSCSI command from an initiator;

    comparing a data sequence value of an iSCSI buffer with said pre-registered buffer;

    fetching data from said pre-registered buffer based on said comparing; and

    zero copying said fetched data from said pre-registered buffer to said initiator.

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