BACKGROUND

A storage system can be used with a host, and both can operate under a standard, such as the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) standard. The NVMe standard provides for a virtualization environment, in which a storage system can be used with a plurality of virtual hosts. Some storage systems use a read-look-ahead mechanism that speculatively fetches data from memory to temporal buffers, while trying to avoid memory sense and transfer latency. Read-look-ahead can be desirable when that memory system operates under the NVMe standard.

