COMMAND QUEUEING FOR I/O ADAPTERS
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    发明专利

    公开(公告)号:AU527907B2

    公开(公告)日:1983-03-31

    申请号:AU5055979

    申请日:1979-09-04

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: This invention relates to a data processing system. … In such a system having an addressable storage (5) for storing instructions, data and input-output (I/O) commands, a central processing unit (CPU) (1) which fetches an executes instructions, and channel means (3) connecting I/O adapters (4) to the storage and the CPU, an apparatus is provided which transfers I/O commands to the I/O adapters (4) whereby the I/O command is either accepted immediately or is queued by the I/O adapter. A queued command is taken up by the I/O adapter (4) when no other data transfer operation is pending. To take up a queue command, the I/O adapter (4) initiates a fetch of the pending command by invoke a standard data-transfer-from-storage sequences. The channel means (3) responds to the fetch initiated by the I/O adapter (4) to send the pending command to the I/O adapter.

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