Intel Corporation
INITIATOR-SIDE OFFLOAD FOR SCALE-OUT STORAGE

Abstract:

Examples described herein relate to a network interface device that includes circuitry to perform operations, offloaded from a host, to identify at least one locator of at least one target storage associated with a storage access command based on operations selected from among multiple available operations, wherein the available operations comprise two or more: entry lookup by the network interface device, hash-based calculation on the network interface device, or control plane processing on the network interface device.