Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Converting a message signaled interruption into an I/O adapter event notification to a guest operating system
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Application No.: US13446957Application Date: 2012-04-13
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Publication No.: US08458387B2Publication Date: 2013-06-04
- Inventor: Frank W. Brice, Jr. , David Craddock , Janet R. Easton , Mark S. Farrell , Thomas A. Gregg , Damian L. Osisek , Gustav E. Sittmann, III
- Applicant: Frank W. Brice, Jr. , David Craddock , Janet R. Easton , Mark S. Farrell , Thomas A. Gregg , Damian L. Osisek , Cynthia Sittmann
- 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 John E. Campbell; Blanche E. Schiller, Esq.
- Main IPC: G06F13/24
- IPC: G06F13/24

Abstract:
One or more message signaled interruption requests from one or more input/output (I/O) adapters are converted to I/O adapter event notifications while retaining the message vector indication. An I/O adapter event notification may be routed and presented to a host or to a guest that the host is executing. To present the notification to the correct host or to the correct guest, various data structures in host and/or guest memory are used.
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