EXTENDING HARDWARE QUEUES WITH SOFTWARE QUEUES

摘要

A storage device with a memory may implement software queueing that can supplement hardware accelerated queueing mechanisms. A software queue supplementing a hardware queue can extend the size and allow pending operations to proceed even if the hardware queue is saturated. The use of software-based queues may extend processing capacity in a hardware-accelerated front-end storage device architecture. The software queue may process excess commands that cannot be handled by a hardware queue with a limited depth.