Invention Grant
- Patent Title: IO adapter and data transferring method using the same
- Patent Title (中): IO适配器和数据传输方法使用相同
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Application No.: US11831097Application Date: 2007-07-31
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Publication No.: US07827331B2Publication Date: 2010-11-02
- Inventor: Takashige Baba , Yoshiko Yasuda , Jun Okitsu
- Applicant: Takashige Baba , Yoshiko Yasuda , Jun Okitsu
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.
- Priority: JP2006-328934 20061206; JP2007-146429 20070601
- Main IPC: G06F13/28
- IPC: G06F13/28 ; G06F13/12 ; G06F13/38

Abstract:
An IO adapter for guaranteeing the data transfer bandwidth on each capsule interface when multiple capsule interfaces jointly share the DMA engine of the IO adapter. An IO driver containing a capsule interface information table including bandwidth information and for setting the forming status of a pair of capsule interfaces and, during data transfer subdivides the descriptors for the capsule interfaces into multiple groups for each data buffer size satisfying the preset bandwidth information and, copies one group at each fixed sample time set by the descriptor registration means, into the descriptor ring and performs DMA transfer. To control this copy information, the IO driver contains a ring scheduler information table for managing the number of descriptor entries for the capsule interface cycle time and, a ring scheduler cancel means for renewing the entries in the ring scheduler information table each time one transmission of the descriptor group ends.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080140877A1 IO ADAPTER AND DATA TRANSFERRING METHOD USING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2008-06-12
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