Protocol

NVMe

NVM Express

Lab ready Full lab

NVM Express — PCIe register and queue interface for SSDs with submission/completion queues, PRP/SGL data pointers, and admin commands. Parallelism is the design point versus AHCI’s single-queue heritage. It is the host protocol under local flash and many NVMe-oF targets.

Domains

Tags

ssdqueuespcieadmin

Sources

  • NVM Express Base Specification

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