Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Execution of a perform frame management function instruction
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Application No.: US13554056Application Date: 2012-07-20
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Publication No.: US08495326B2Publication Date: 2013-07-23
- Inventor: Charles W. Gainey, Jr. , Dan F. Greiner , Lisa Cranton Heller , Damian L. Osisek , Gustav E. Sittmann, III
- Applicant: Charles W. Gainey, Jr. , Dan F. Greiner , Lisa Cranton Heller , 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: G06F13/00
- IPC: G06F13/00

Abstract:
Optimizations are provided for frame management operations, including a clear operation and/or a set storage key operation, requested by pageable guests. The operations are performed, absent host intervention, on frames not resident in host memory. The operations may be specified in an instruction issued by the pageable guests.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120284477A1 EXECUTION OF A PERFORM FRAME MANAGEMENT FUNCTION INSTRUCTION Public/Granted day:2012-11-08
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