Addresses assignment for adaptor interfaces

• US 8,214,525 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2009
• Issued: 07/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Seto, Pak-Lung
• Primary Examiner(s): WASEL, MOHAMED A
• Application Number:
  US12/351,777
• Publication Number:
  US 20090119413A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,271 Days
• Field of Search: 709/238, 709/245, 709/250
• US Class Current: 709/238
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5038 for local use, e.g. in LAN or USB networks, or in a controller area network [CAN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/32 Architecture of open systems interconnection [OSI] 7-layer type protocol stacks, e.g. the interfaces between the data link level and the physical level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/326 in the transport layer [OSI layer 4] H04L69/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

An initial configuration is maintained assigning multiple local interfaces to one initial local address. For each local interface, a remote address of a remote interface on at least one remote device to which the local interface connects is received. The initial local address is used to identify the local interfaces assigned to the initial local address in response to receiving a same remote address for each remote interface connected to the local interfaces assigned the initial local address.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

assigning a same initial local Serial Attached Small Computer Systems Interface (SAS) address to all local SAS PHYs in a local device;

for multiple ones of the local SAS PHYs, receiving a remote SAS address assigned to a remote SAS PHY in a remote device to which the local SAS PHY connects; and

configuring width of a local port in the local device based on the received remote SAS address by assigning a same local SAS address to local PHYs that receive a same remote SAS address from the remote SAS PHY.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the same remote SAS address is received from four remote SAS PHY to form a SAS wide port comprising four SAS PHYs.

3. The method of claim 1, wherien the same remote SAS address is received from all remote SAS PHYs to form a SAS wide port having a maximum possible width.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the same remote SAS address is received from one of the plurality of remote SAS PHYs to form a SAS narrow port.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the local device is a host adapter.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the remote device is a storage device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the received remote SAS address is received as part of an identification sequence, further comprising:

transmitting the initial local SAS address to the remote SAS PHYs connected to the local SAS PHYs.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the initial SAS address assigned to the local SAS PHYs, including the at least one generated identifier, comprise local SAS addresses, further comprising:

initiating an additional identification sequence in response to generating the local SAS address; and

transmitting the local SAS addresses identifying the local SAS PHYs to the connected remote SAS PHYs in response to the additional identification sequence.

9. An apparatus comprising:

a plurality of local Serial Attached Small Computer Systems Interface (SAS) PHYs in a local device to communicate with a plurality of remote SAS PHYs on at least one remote device; and

circuitry capable of causing operations, the operations comprising;

assigning a same initial local Serial Attached Small Computer Systems Interface (SAS) address to all local SAS PHYs in the local device;

for multiple ones of the local SAS PHYs, receiving a remote SAS address assigned to a remote SAS PHY in the remote device to which the local SAS PHY connects; and

configuring width of a local port in the local device based on the received remote SAS address by assigning a same local SAS address to local PHYs that receive a same remote SAS address from the remote SAS PHY.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the same remote SAS address is received from four remote SAS PHY to form a SAS wide port comprising four SAS PHYs.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the same remote SAS address is received from all remote SAS PHYs to form a SAS wide port having a maximum possible width.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the same remote SAS address is received from one of the plurality of remote SAS PHYs to form a SAS narrow port.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the local device is a host adapter.

14. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the remote device is an expander.

15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the remote device is a storage device.

16. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the received remote SAS address is received as part of an identification sequence, further comprising:

transmitting the initial local SAS address to the remote SAS PHYs connected to the local SAS PHYs.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the initial SAS address assigned to the local SAS PHYs, including the at least one generated identifier, comprise local SAS addresses, further comprising:

initiating an additional identification sequence in response to generating the local SAS address; and

transmitting the local SAS addresses identifying the local SAS PHYs to the connected remote SAS PHYs in response to the additional identification sequence.

18. An article including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having associated information, wherein the information, when executed by a processor, results in a machine performing:

assigning a same initial local Serial Attached Small Computer Systems Interface (SAS) address to all local SAS PHYs in a local device;

for multiple ones of the local SAS PHYs, receiving a remote SAS address assigned to a remote SAS PHY in a remote device to which the local SAS PHY connects; and

configuring width of a local port in the local device based on the received remote SAS address by assigning a same local SAS address to local PHYs that receive a same remote SAS address from the remote SAS PHY.

19. The article of claim 18, wherein the received remote SAS address is received as part of an identification sequence, further comprising:

transmitting the initial local SAS address to the remote SAS PHYs connected to the local SAS PHYs.

20. The article of claim 19, wherein the initial SAS address assigned to the local SAS PHYs, including the at least one generated identifier, comprise local SAS addresses, further comprising:

initiating an additional identification sequence in response to generating the local SAS address; and

transmitting the local SAS addresses identifying the local SAS PHYs to the connected remote SAS PHYs in response to the additional identification sequence.