Patent attributes
Techniques can include: receiving from a component a bufferless read request to read data of a storage object; opening a first transaction; acquiring locks of data pages including the read data; locking cache pages; storing the read data in the cache pages; sending to the component a notification identifying references, pointers or addresses of the cache pages storing the read data; responsive to receiving the notification, the first component performing one or more operations including directly accessing the first data from the cache pages using the references, pointers or addresses; and responsive to successfully completing the one or more operations, performing second processing including: releasing or unlocking the set of one or more cache pages storing the first data; releasing the one or more locks of the one or more data pages including the first data; and closing the first transaction.
