Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Use efficiency of platform memory resources through firmware managed I/O translation table paging
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Application No.: US15218495Application Date: 2016-07-25
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Publication No.: US10310759B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Travis Pizel , Naveen Rathi
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F11/30
- IPC: G06F11/30 ; G06F11/00 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F9/50 ; G06F9/455

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed herein for paging I/O translation table entries. A host bridge of system hardware receives a request to fetch a first segment of an I/O translation table associated with one of a plurality of logical partitions executing in a computing system. The host bridge identifies a control register associated with the first segment. Upon determining that the first segment is paged out to the storage volume, a second segment is paged out from a location in memory to the storage volume. The first segment is paged in to the location.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170212706A1 USE EFFICIENCY OF PLATFORM MEMORY RESOURCES THROUGH FIRMWARE MANAGED I/O TRANSLATION TABLE PAGING Public/Granted day:2017-07-27
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