Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Computer system for sharing I/O device
- Patent Title (中): 用于共享I / O设备的计算机系统
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Application No.: US11561557Application Date: 2006-11-20
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Publication No.: US07890669B2Publication Date: 2011-02-15
- Inventor: Keitaro Uehara , Yuji Tsushima , Toshiomi Moriki , Yoshiko Yasuda
- Applicant: Keitaro Uehara , Yuji Tsushima , Toshiomi Moriki , Yoshiko Yasuda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.
- Priority: JP2005-340088 20051125; JP2006-194534 20060714
- Main IPC: G06F13/28
- IPC: G06F13/28

Abstract:
Provided is a computer system in which an I/O card is shared among physical servers and logical servers. Servers are set in advance such that one I/O card is used exclusively by one physical or logical server, or shared among a plurality of servers. An I/O hub allocates a virtual MM I/O address unique to each physical or logical server to a physical MM I/O address associated with each I/O card. The I/O hub keeps allocation information indicating the relation between the allocated virtual MM I/O address, the physical MM I/O address, and a server identifier unique to each physical or logical server. When a request to access an I/O card is sent from a physical or logical server, the allocation information is referred to and a server identifier is extracted from the access request. The extracted server identifier is used to identify the physical or logical server that has made the access request.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070143395A1 COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR SHARING I/O DEVICE Public/Granted day:2007-06-21
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