Abstract: A storage processor for a block storage RAID array services disk storage block requests from one or more hosts. At its heart, a application specific integrated chip (ASIC) supports a store and forward data transfer regime in that host to disk transfers are made by placing data in storage processor memory under control of the storage processor, operated on by the ASIC, and sent to the disk array. Efficient handling of ordering is, preferably, provided by hardware logic-based masking of interrupts and by other mechanisms. Embodiments help to insure that shared data paths are flushed of non-critical data quickly to sustain more critical data, for example, that required to sustain high throughput.

Abstract: A towel clip holds a towel in place on a chair back of an outdoor chair such as a beach chair or lounge chair. The clip includes a generally C-shaped semirigid clip member, a pair of side-by-side first clamping members of generally spherical shape on one end of the C, and a second pair of generally spherically shaped clamping members on the other end of the C. The first pair of the clamping members are arranged side by side and the second pair of clamping members are arranged front to rear so that the respective pair of clamping members extend along mutually orthogonal axes. The C-shaped clip is made from a plastic material having a recovery force that holds the spherically-shaped clamping members under slight tension normally so that one pair of clamping members interlocks within a narrow space between the other pair of clamping members and vice versa.