| CPC G06F 15/17331 (2013.01) [G06F 13/404 (2013.01); G06F 13/4221 (2013.01); H04L 9/0863 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0026 (2013.01)] | 14 Claims |
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1. A method for providing memory access to a server, the method comprising:
receiving at a source server fabric adapter (SFA), from a server, a plurality of memory access requests, each memory access request comprising a virtual memory address;
translating a first memory access request from the plurality of memory access requests into a first network memory request associated with a local memory request handler;
translating at the source SFA, the virtual memory address for the first memory access request into a physical memory address of a source-local memory;
translating a second memory access request from the plurality of memory access requests into a second network memory request associated with a remote memory request handler;
using a transport handler to apply transport headers and insert the second network memory request into a network flow for transmitting to the remote memory request handler;
synthesizing a request message comprising a request header and a request payload, the request header comprising a network address of a destination SFA associated with a remote memory, and the request payload comprising the second memory access request; and
transmitting the request message to the destination SFA using a network protocol,
wherein translating the first memory access request and the second memory access request comprises prioritizing and performing one or more of a page table lookup function or an associative range map function.
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