Vendor-independent resource configuration interface for self-virtualizing input/output device

GD Anderson, CS Graham, AT Koch, BM Logan… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
(51) Int. Cl. A vendor-independent resource configuration interface auto G06F 9/46(2006.01)
matically maps virtual functions to physical functions in a G06F 15/16(2006.01) self …

Virtualization of hardware queues in self-virtualizing input/output devices

AT Koch, KA Lucke, NJ Rogness - US Patent 8,881,141, 2014 - Google Patents
See application? le for complete search history, resource-speci? c details for the self-
virtualiZing IO resource. By doing so, a logical partition may be permitted to con? gure (56) …

Specializing virtual network device processing to avoid interrupt processing for high packet rate applications

L Singaravelu, J Heo, JT Weng, A Veeraiyan… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Virtualization of network devices provides many advan tages in virtualized
environments. It allows for sharing a single physical device amongst multiple virtual …

Accessing vendor-specific drivers for configuring and accessing a self-virtualizing input/output device

PA Barrett, CS Graham, AT Koch, BM Logan… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
US8839240B2 - Accessing vendor-specific drivers for configuring and accessing a self-virtualizing
input/output device - Google Patents US8839240B2 - Accessing vendor-specific drivers for …

Transparent update of adapter firmware for self-virtualizing input/output device

WJ Armstrong, CS Graham, AT Koch, KA Lucke… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A firmware update process for a self-virtualizing IO resource such as an
SRIOV adapter is incorporated into a platform firmware update process to systematically …

Migrating interrupts from a source I/O adapter of a source computing system to a destination I/O adapter of a destination computing system

JP Arroyo, CS Graham, P Kommineni… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
Migrating interrupts from a source I/O adapter of a source computing system to a destination
I/O adapter of a destination computing system, includes: collecting, by a source hypervisor of …

Function transfer using virtualized mapping

BW Hart, L Jiang, A Kalavakolanu, SD Moore… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
The present disclosure includes a method for migration of a first virtual function of a first
device located on a PCI bus and accessible by a device driver using a virtual address. A …

Live partition mobility with I/O migration

JP Arroyo, CS Graham, P Kommineni… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
Live partition mobility in a computing environment that includes a source system and a target
system may be carried out by: pausing a logical partition on the source system, wherein the …

Supporting cluster level system dumps in a cluster environment

CD Bender, JJ Rosales, MJ Rosas… - US Patent App. 12 …, 2012 - Google Patents
Inventors: Carl Duane Bender, Pflugerville, TX (US); Jacob Jason Rosales, A method,
system, and computer program product provides Austin, TX (US); Morgan Jeffrey …

Dynamic batch management of shared buffers for virtual machines

MS Tsirkin, T Graf - US Patent 9,367,343, 2016 - Google Patents
G06F 9/455(2006.01) H04L 29/08(2006.01)(57) ABSTRACT G06F 9/50(2006.01) G06F
9/48(2006.01) Methods, systems, and computer program products for pro (52) US Cl viding …