Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Directed interrupt virtualization with fallback
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Application No.: US16789600Application Date: 2020-02-13
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Publication No.: US11243791B2Publication Date: 2022-02-08
- Inventor: Christoph Raisch , Marco Kraemer , Donald William Schmidt , Bernd Nerz , 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: EP19157105 20190214
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F9/48 ; G06F9/50 ; G06F9/54 ; G06F13/24

Abstract:
An interrupt signal is provided to a guest operating system executed using one or more processors of a plurality of processors. One of the processors receives from a bus attachment device an interrupt signal issued by a bus connected module. A logical processor ID resulting from a translation of an interrupt target ID provided with the interrupt signal is used to address the receiving processor directly. The receiving processor checks whether interrupt target ID identifies the receiving processor as a target processor of the interrupt signal. If the receiving processor is not the target processor, the interrupt signal is forwarded for handling by the guest operating system using broadcasting.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200264912A1 DIRECTED INTERRUPT VIRTUALIZATION WITH FALLBACK Public/Granted day:2020-08-20
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