Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Performing a clear operation absent host intervention
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Application No.: US15166886Application Date: 2016-05-27
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Publication No.: US09606799B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Charles W. Gainey, Jr. , Dan F. Greiner , Lisa C. Heller , Damian L. Osisek , Gustav E. Sittmann, III
- 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 William A. Kinnaman, Jr., Esq.; Blanche E. Schiller, Esq.
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F13/00 ; G06F9/30 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F12/0891 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F12/1009 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F12/08

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
- US20160274913A1 PERFORMING A CLEAR OPERATION ABSENT HOST INTERVENTION Public/Granted day:2016-09-22
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