A high-throughput fibre channel data communication service

Yu An Tan*, Jing Jin, Yuan Da Cao, Li Gu Zhu

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Abstract

Fibre Channel Data Communication Service (FCDCS) is proposed in this paper that implements an optimized peer-to-peer communication mechanism based on SCSI target mid-level subsystem. FCDCS uses the standard FCP protocol mapping and vendor-specific commands, and the command descriptor blocks (CDBs) defined in this paper. It maintains full compatibility with the Fibre Channel standard. FCDCS can operate with QLA2342 (2Gb/sec) Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBA) from Qlogic corporation, and can operate in arbitrated loop (FC_AL), switched fabric, or point-to-point topology. With FCDCS, CPU's loads have been reduced as data transfers directly to and form user buffers by bypassing host memory. Data throughput has been increased greatly by transferring data in larger package. Off-the-shelf 2Gb/sec FC host bus adapters are used in the experiments.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - Sixth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, PDCAT 2005
Pages975-978
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Event6th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, PDCAT 2005 - Dalian, China
Duration: 5 Dec 20058 Dec 2005

Publication series

NameParallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, PDCAT Proceedings
Volume2005

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, PDCAT 2005
Country/TerritoryChina
CityDalian
Period5/12/058/12/05

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