Inventor

THURBER STEVEN M

US60 patents

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THURBER STEVEN M

IBM

PCI function south-side data management

Splitting endpoint address translation cache management responsibilities between a device driver and device driver services

Communicating with an I/O device using a queue data structure and pre-translated addresses

Communicating with a memory registration enabled adapter using cached address translations

System and method for configuring an endpoint based on specified valid combinations of functions

Method for communicating with an I/O adapter using cached address translations

Multi-root I/O virtualization using separate management facilities of multiple logical partitions

Communication between host systems using a socket connection and shared memories

Method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for migrating virtual adapters from source physical adapters to destination physical adapters

Communication between host systems using a transaction protocol and shared memories

Hot-plug/remove of a new component in a running PCIe fabric

Migration of a virtual endpoint from one virtual plane to another

Migrating stateless virtual functions from one virtual plane to another

Bus/device/function translation within and routing of communications packets in a PCI switched-fabric in a multi-host environment utilizing multiple root switches

Broadcast of shared I/O fabric error messages in a multi-host environment to all affected root nodes

Method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for migrating virtual adapters from source physical adapters to destination physical adapters

Method of routing I/O adapter error messages in a multi-host environment

Creation and management of destination ID routing structures in multi-host PCI topologies

Data processing system including buffering mechanism for inbound and outbound reads and posted writes

System and method for asynchronously processing store instructions to I/O space

Creation and management of routing table for PCI bus address based routing with integrated DID

Dynamic allocation of a direct memory address window

Use of peripheral component interconnect input/output virtualization devices to create redundant configurations

Differentiating traffic types in a multi-root PCI express environment

Retaining an association between a virtual address based buffer and a user space application that owns the buffer

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for routing packets utilizing a unique identifier, included within a standard address, that identifies the destination host computer system

Routing of shared I/O fabric error messages in a multi-host environment to a master control root node

Creation and management of destination ID routing structures in multi-host PCI topologies

Method using a master node to control I/O fabric configuration in a multi-host environment

Mechanism to virtualize all address spaces in shared I/O fabrics

Routing mechanism in PCI multi-host topologies using destination ID field

Method using a master node to control I/O fabric configuration in a multi-host environment

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for routing packets utilizing a unique identifier, included within a standard address, that identifies the destination host computer system

Method of routing I/O adapter error messages in a multi-host environment

Communication between host systems using a queuing system and shared memories

Memory mapped input/output bus address range translation

Migration of single root stateless virtual functions

Mapping a virtual address to PCI bus address

Broadcast of shared I/O fabric error messages in a multi-host environment to all affected root nodes

BROWN AARON C

Management of an IOV adapter through a virtual intermediary in a hypervisor with functional management in an IOV management partition

Native and non-native I/O virtualization in a single adapter

Differentiating blade destination and traffic types in a multi-root PCIe environment

Distribution of resources for I/O virtualized (IOV) adapters and management of the adapters through an IOV management partition via user selection of compatible virtual functions

Management of an IOV adapter through a virtual intermediary in an IOV management partition

FREIMUTH DOUGLAS M

Initializing shared memories for sharing endpoints across a plurality of root complexes

PCI express address translation services invalidation synchronization with TCE invalidation

Use of peripheral component interconnect input/output virtualization devices to create high-speed, low-latency interconnect

MOERTL DANIEL F

Method for communicating with a network adapter using a queue data structure and cached address translations

LAIS ERIC N

Implementing PCI-express memory domains for single root virtualized devices

ARMSTRONG WILLIAM J

Translating a requester identifier to a chip identifier