公开(公告)号：CA2365876A1

公开(公告)日：2000-11-23

申请号：CA2365876

申请日：2000-03-02

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： NAYAR NARESH ,  ARMSTRONG WILLIAM JOSEPH

IPC: G06F9/00 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F9/54 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F15/16 ,  G06F15/167 ,  G06F9/40

Abstract: An apparatus, program product and method utilize an event-driven communications interface to support communications between multiple logical partitions (40, 42, and 44) in a logically-partitioned computer. The event- driven communications interface is at least partially disposed within a partition manager (46) that is accessible to each of the logical partitions (40, 42, and 44). Events are typically passed between logical partitions (40 , 42, and 44) in the form of messages that are passed first from a source logical partition that initiates the event, through the partition manager (46), and then to a target logical partition to which the event is directed, while maintaining the independent address spaces associated with the logical partitions (40, 42, and 44).