Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Directed interrupt virtualization with blocking indicator
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Application No.: US16789567Application Date: 2020-02-13
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Publication No.: US11023398B2Publication Date: 2021-06-01
- Inventor: Christoph Raisch , Marco Kraemer , Donald William Schmidt , Bernd Nerz , Sascha Junghans , Peter Dana Driever
- 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: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.
- Agent Steven Chiu, Esq.; Blanche E. Schiller, Esq.
- Priority: EP19157102 20190214
- Main IPC: G06F9/48
- IPC: G06F9/48 ; G06F13/24 ; G06F12/1009 ; G06F9/455

Abstract:
An interrupt signal is provided to a guest operating system. A bus attachment device receives an interrupt signal from a bus connected module with an interrupt target ID identifying a processor assigned for use by the guest operating system as a target processor for handling the interrupt signal. The bus attachment device checks whether the target processor is blocked from receiving interrupt signals using an interrupt blocking indicator provided by an interrupt table entry stored in a memory operationally connected with the bus attachment device. If the target processor unblocked, the bus attachment device forwards the interrupt signal to the target processor for handling. A translation of the interrupt target ID to a logical processor ID of the target processor is used to address the target processor directly.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200264995A1 DIRECTED INTERRUPT VIRTUALIZATION WITH BLOCKING INDICATOR Public/Granted day:2020-08-20
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