Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Selectively coupling a PCI host bridge to multiple PCI communication paths
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Application No.: US14082630Application Date: 2013-11-18
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Publication No.: US09465706B2Publication Date: 2016-10-11
- Inventor: Jesse P. Arroyo , Anjan Kumar Guttahalli Krishna
- 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: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00 ; G06F11/20 ; G06F11/16 ; G06F11/07 ; G06F12/06 ; G06F13/00 ; G06F11/14

Abstract:
Instead of disabling PCI communication between system resources in a host computing device and I/O devices when a PCI Host Bridge (PHB) is reset, the host computing device may include a PCI communication path for maintaining communication between the system resources and the I/O devices. In one embodiment, the redundant PCI communication path includes a second PHB that is maintained in a standby state. The host may monitor the errors generated by a plurality of master PHBs and select a master PHB that satisfies an error threshold. The second PHB (i.e., a servant PHB) and the selected master PHB are synchronized, and the second PHB is coupled to the PCI communication path between the master PHB and a PCI switch. The master PHB can then be reset while the second PHB maintains PCI communication between the host and the I/O devices.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150127969A1 SELECTIVELY COUPLING A PCI HOST BRIDGE TO MULTIPLE PCI COMMUNICATION PATHS Public/Granted day:2015-05-07
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