A method for use with a storage network includes generating system messages, in accordance with the system-level message processing parameters, the system messages including status information, performance information and alarms, each having one of a plurality of priorities, wherein the generating includes: generating a first message of the system messages corresponding to a first of the storage nodes based on the system-level message processing parameters, the first message including a first alarm of the alarms having a first message priority of the plurality of priorities; and generating a second message of the system messages corresponding to a second of the storage nodes based on the system-level message processing parameters, the second message including a second alarm of the alarms having a second message priority of the plurality of priorities.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing data on a memory controller. One of the methods comprises obtaining a first request and a second request to access respective data corresponding to the first and second requests at a first memory device of the plurality of memory devices; and initiating interleaved processing of the respective data; receiving an indication to stop processing requests to access data at the first memory device and to initiate processing requests to access data at a second memory device, determining that the respective data corresponding to the first and second requests have not yet been fully processed at the time of receiving the indication, and in response, storing, in memory accessible to the memory controller, data corresponding to the requests which have not yet been fully processed.

The present invention provides a storage device including a controller and methods for operating the storage device and the controller. A controller of a storage device may comprise: an interface controller; a memory controller; a processor configured to transmit downstream commands and upstream commands to the memory controller. The memory controller may be coupled between the interface controller and the processor and may comprise: a first command queue; a second command queue; and a tag generator. The memory controller may be configured to: store a first command received from the processor in the first command queue; store a second command received from the processor in the second command queue; and in response to a first access region of the first command overlapping a second access region of the second command in the second queue, assign an order tag for the second command based on a first serial number of the first command by the tag generator.

A host controller interface configured to provide interfacing between a host device and a storage device includes processing circuitry; a doorbell register configured to store a head pointer and a tail pointer of one or more first queues; and an entry buffer configured to store a first command from one of the one or more first queues in the entry buffer, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to, determine an order in which the commands of the one or more first queues are to be processed, route the first command to be stored in the entry buffer according to the determined order, and route a first response to be stored in one of one or more second queues.

A memory controller includes a command queue that receives and stores decoded memory commands and information related thereto including information indicating a type, a priority, an age, and a region of a memory system for a corresponding decoded memory command, and an arbiter coupled to the command queue and picks selected decoded memory commands among the decoded memory commands from the command queue for dispatch to the memory system by comparing the priority and the age for decoded memory commands having a first type. The arbiter detects when the command queue receives a decoded memory command of a second type opposite to said first type that accesses a first memory region of the memory system, and in response performs at least one pre-work action that reduces a latency of the decoded memory command of the second type.

Various embodiments relate to an inline encryption engine in a memory controller configured to process data read from a memory, including: a first data pipeline configured to receive data that is plaintext data and a first validity flag; a second data pipeline having the same length as the first data pipeline configured to: receive data that is encrypted data and a second validity flag; decrypt the encrypted data from the memory and output decrypted plaintext data; an output multiplexer configured to select and output data from either the first pipeline or the second pipeline; and control logic configured to control the output multiplexer, wherein the control logic is configured to output valid data from the first pipeline when the second pipeline does not have valid output decrypted plaintext data available.

A computing device, including a processor configured to perform data transfer scheduling for a hardware accelerator including a plurality of processing areas. Performing data transfer scheduling may include receiving a plurality of data transfer instructions that encode requests to transfer data to respective processing areas. Performing data transfer scheduling may further include identifying a plurality of transfer path conflicts between the data transfer instructions. Performing data transfer scheduling may further include sorting the data transfer instructions into a plurality of transfer instruction subsets. Within each transfer instruction subset, none of the data transfer instructions have transfer path conflicts. For each transfer instruction subset, performing data transfer scheduling may further include conveying the data transfer instructions included in that transfer instruction subset to the hardware accelerator. The data transfer instructions may be conveyed in a plurality of sequential data transfer phases that correspond to the transfer instruction subsets.

A system-on-check integrated circuit 2 includes interconnect circuitry 4 connecting a plurality of transaction sources to a plurality of transaction destinations. The interconnect circuitry 4 includes a reorder buffer for buffering access transactions and hazard checking circuitry 46, 48, 50, 52 for performing hazard checks, such as point-of-serialization checks and identifier reuse checks. Check suppression circuitry 62, 64, 66, 68 serves to suppress one or more hazard checks depending upon one or more state variables that themselves depend upon access transactions other than the access transaction for which the hazard checking is or is not to be suppressed. As an example, hazard checking may be suppressed if it is known that there are no other access transactions currently buffered within the reorder buffer 26 or alternatively no other access transactions from the same transaction source buffered within the reorder buffer 26.

A memory controller includes a command queue and an arbiter for selecting entries from the command queue for transmission to a DRAM. The arbiter transacts streaks of consecutive read commands and streaks of consecutive write commands. The arbiter transacts a streak for at least a minimum burst length based on a number of commands of a designated type available to be selected by the arbiter. Following the minimum burst length, the arbiter decides to start a new streak of commands of a different type based on a first set of one or more conditions indicating intra-burst efficiency.

Systems and methods for invalidating page translation entries are described. A processing element may apply a delay to a drain cycle of a store reorder queue (SRQ) of a processing element. The processing element may drain the SRQ under the delayed drain cycle. The processing element may receive a translation lookaside buffer invalidation (TLBI) instruction from an interconnect connecting the plurality of processing elements. The TLBI instruction may be an instruction to invalidate a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) entry corresponding to at least one of a virtual memory page and a physical memory frame. The TLBI instruction may be broadcasted by another processing element. The application of the delay to the drain cycle of the SRQ may decrease a difference between the drain cycle of the SRQ and an invalidation cycle associated with the TLBI.