公开(公告)号：US07376948B2

公开(公告)日：2008-05-20

申请号：US10422425

申请日：2003-04-24

申请人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Naresh Nayar ,  Gregory Michael Nordstrom ,  Timothy Joseph Torzewski

发明人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Naresh Nayar ,  Gregory Michael Nordstrom ,  Timothy Joseph Torzewski

IPC分类号： G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F9/54 ,  G06F12/08

CPC分类号： G06F9/5077 ,  G06F9/542 ,  G06F2209/543 ,  G06F2209/544

摘要： A logically-partitioned computer, program product and method utilize a flexible and adaptable communication interface between a partition and a partition manager, which permits optimal handling of partition management operations such as state change operations and the like over a wide variety of circumstances. In particular, a partition is permitted to indicate, in connection with a request to perform a partition management operation, whether an asynchronous notification should be generated or suppressed in association with the performance of the partition management operation by a partition manager. As a result, asynchronous notifications are selectively generated in association with the performance of partition management operations based upon indications in the requests made by partitions for such operations.

摘要翻译： 逻辑分区计算机，程序产品和方法利用分区和分区管理器之间的灵活且可适应的通信接口，其允许在各种情况下最佳地处理诸如状态改变操作等的分区管理操作。 特别地，允许分区结合执行分区管理操作的请求来指示是否应该由分区管理器执行分区管理操作来生成或抑制异步通知。 因此，基于由用于这种操作的分区所做的请求中的指示，与分区管理操作的执行相关联地选择性地生成异步通知。

公开(公告)号：US20060206891A1

公开(公告)日：2006-09-14

申请号：US11077324

申请日：2005-03-10

申请人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Timothy Richard Marchini ,  Naresh Nayar ,  Bret Ronald Olszewski ,  Mysore Sathyanarayana Srinivas

发明人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Timothy Richard Marchini ,  Naresh Nayar ,  Bret Ronald Olszewski ,  Mysore Sathyanarayana Srinivas

IPC分类号： G06F9/455

CPC分类号： G06F9/45537

摘要： A system, computer program product and method of logically partitioning a multiprocessor system are provided. The system is first partitioned into a plurality of partitions and each partition is assigned a percentage of the resources of the system. However, to provide the system with virtual machine capability, virtual resources, rather than physical resources, are assigned to the partitions. The virtual resources are mapped and bound to the physical resources that are available in the system. Because of the virtual machine capability of the system, logical partitions that are in need of resources that are assigned to other partitions are allowed to use those resources if the resources are idle.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种逻辑划分多处理器系统的系统，计算机程序产品和方法。 该系统首先被划分成多个分区，并且每个分区被分配一部分系统的资源。 然而，为了向系统提供虚拟机能力，将虚拟资源而不是物理资源分配给分区。 虚拟资源被映射并绑定到系统中可用的物理资源。 由于系统的虚拟机能力，如果资源空闲，则允许需要分配给其他分区的资源的逻辑分区使用这些资源。

公开(公告)号：US06957435B2

公开(公告)日：2005-10-18

申请号：US09838057

申请日：2001-04-19

申请人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Mark Gregory Manges ,  Naresh Nayar ,  Jeffrey Jay Scheel ,  Craig Alden Wilcox

发明人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Mark Gregory Manges ,  Naresh Nayar ,  Jeffrey Jay Scheel ,  Craig Alden Wilcox

IPC分类号： G06F9/50 ,  G06F9/46

CPC分类号： G06F9/5077 ,  G06F2209/5012

摘要： A processor allocation mechanism for a logically partitionable computer system allows an administrator to specify processing capability allocable to each partition as an equivalent number of processors, where the processing capability may be specified as a non-integer value. This processing capability value is unaffected by changes to the processing capability values of other partitions. The administrator may designate multiple sets of processors, assigning each physical processor of the system to a respective processor set. Each logical partition is constrained to execute in an assigned processor set, which may be shared by more than one partition. Preferably, the administrator may designate a logical partition as either capped, meaning that a partition can not use excess idle capacity of the processors, or uncapped, meaning that it can.

摘要翻译： 用于逻辑可分割计算机系统的处理器分配机制允许管理员将可分配给每个分区的处理能力指定为等效数量的处理器，其中处理能力可以被指定为非整数值。 该处理能力值不受其他分区的处理能力值的更改的影响。 管理员可以指定多组处理器，将系统的每个物理处理器分配给相应的处理器集。 每个逻辑分区被限制为在分配的处理器集中执行，分配的处理器集可由多于一个的分区共享。 优选地，管理员可以将逻辑分区指定为加盖的，这意味着分区不能使用处理器的多余的空闲容量，或者是无盖的，意味着它可以。

公开(公告)号：US07849347B2

公开(公告)日：2010-12-07

申请号：US11735750

申请日：2007-04-16

申请人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Adam Charles Lange-Pearson ,  Naresh Nayar

发明人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Adam Charles Lange-Pearson ,  Naresh Nayar

IPC分类号： G06F1/00

CPC分类号： G06F9/4856

摘要： An apparatus, program product and method for automatically and transparently determining the time required to migrate a logical partition. This determined latency may be used to update clocks and other time-related values of the migrated logical partition.

摘要翻译： 一种用于自动和透明地确定迁移逻辑分区所需时间的设备，程序产品和方法。 该确定的延迟可用于更新迁移的逻辑分区的时钟和其他时间相关值。

公开(公告)号：US20090144737A1

公开(公告)日：2009-06-04

申请号：US12358405

申请日：2009-01-23

申请人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Bruce G. Mealey ,  Naresh Nayar ,  Balaram Sinharoy

发明人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Bruce G. Mealey ,  Naresh Nayar ,  Balaram Sinharoy

IPC分类号： G06F9/44 ,  G06F9/38

CPC分类号： G06F9/4812 ,  G06F9/30189 ,  G06F9/3851 ,  G06F9/485

摘要： An apparatus and program product utilize a multithreaded processor having at least one hardware thread among a plurality of hardware threads that is capable of being selectively activated and deactivated responsive to a control circuit. The control circuit additionally provides the capability of controlling how an inactive thread can be activated after the thread has been deactivated, e.g., by enabling or disabling reactivation in response to an interrupt.

摘要翻译： 一种装置和程序产品利用多线程处理器，其具有能够响应于控制电路选择性地激活和去激活的多个硬件线程中的至少一个硬件线程。 控制电路另外提供了控制如何在线程被去激活之后如何激活非活动线程的能力，例如通过启用或禁用响应于中断的重新激活。

公开(公告)号：US20080256321A1

公开(公告)日：2008-10-16

申请号：US11735809

申请日：2007-04-16

申请人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Michael J. Corrigan ,  Stuart Zachary Jacobs ,  David Anthony Larson ,  Naresh Nayar ,  Wade Byron Ouren

发明人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Michael J. Corrigan ,  Stuart Zachary Jacobs ,  David Anthony Larson ,  Naresh Nayar ,  Wade Byron Ouren

IPC分类号： G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F12/10 ,  G06F9/4856 ,  G06F9/5077 ,  G06F12/08 ,  G06F12/1036 ,  G06F12/109

摘要： An apparatus, program product and method for tracking the state of a migrating logical partition. Embodiments may use the state to determine the readiness and/or appropriateness of a page of the logical partition for transferring. The state may include a value or other data used to track changes affecting the page or the relative ease and/or appropriateness of migrating the page. A page manager table with entries corresponding to the state of each page of the logical partition may be used to track the state while the logical partition continues to run during a migration.

摘要翻译： 用于跟踪迁移逻辑分区的状态的装置，程序产品和方法。 实施例可以使用该状态来确定用于传送的逻辑分区的页面的准备和/或适当性。 状态可以包括用于跟踪影响页面的变化的值或其他数据，或迁移页面的相对容易度和/或适当性。 可以使用具有与逻辑分区的每个页面的状态对应的条目的页面管理器表来跟踪状态，同时逻辑分区在迁移期间继续运行。

公开(公告)号：US07428485B2

公开(公告)日：2008-09-23

申请号：US09939232

申请日：2001-08-24

申请人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Chris Francois ,  Naresh Nayar

发明人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Chris Francois ,  Naresh Nayar

IPC分类号： G06F9/44

CPC分类号： G06F9/4843 ,  G06F9/4881 ,  G06F9/5077

摘要： An apparatus, program product and method for coordinating the distribution of CPUs as among logically-partitioned virtual processors. A virtual processor may yield a CPU to precipitate an occurrence upon which its own execution may be predicated. As such, program code may dispatch the surrendered CPU to a designated virtual processor.

摘要翻译： 用于协调在逻辑分区虚拟处理器之间分配CPU的装置，程序产品和方法。 虚拟处理器可能会产生一个CPU来沉淀其本身可执行的事件。 因此，程序代码可以将投降的CPU分派到指定的虚拟处理器。

公开(公告)号：US20080201550A1

公开(公告)日：2008-08-21

申请号：US12111940

申请日：2008-04-29

申请人： David Alan Bailey ,  William Joseph Armstrong ,  Naresh Nayar ,  Gregory Michael Nordstrom

发明人： David Alan Bailey ,  William Joseph Armstrong ,  Naresh Nayar ,  Gregory Michael Nordstrom

IPC分类号： G06F12/06

CPC分类号： G06F9/5077

摘要： A partition manager includes an I/O reconfiguration mechanism and a logical partition suspend/resume mechanism that work together to perform autonomic I/O reconfiguration in a logically partitioned computer system. When I/O reconfiguration is required, the affected logical partitions are suspended, the I/O is reconfigured, and the affected logical partitions are resumed. Because the logical partitions are suspended during I/O reconfiguration, any ghost packet that may occur when the I/O is reconfigured is ignored.

摘要翻译： 分区管理器包括I / O重新配置机制和逻辑分区挂起/恢复机制，其协同工作以在逻辑分区的计算机系统中执行自主I / O重新配置。 当需要I / O重新配置时，受影响的逻辑分区将被挂起，重新配置I / O，并恢复受影响的逻辑分区。 因为逻辑分区在I / O重新配置期间被挂起，所以当I / O被重新配置时可能发生的任何ghost数据包被忽略。

公开(公告)号：US07281075B2

公开(公告)日：2007-10-09

申请号：US10422513

申请日：2003-04-24

申请人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  David Anthony Larson ,  Naresh Nayar

发明人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  David Anthony Larson ,  Naresh Nayar

IPC分类号： G06F13/24

CPC分类号： G06F9/45533 ,  G06F13/24

摘要： A method, system, and article of manufacture for processing virtual interrupts in a logically partitioned system are provided. An intelligent virtual global interrupt queue (virtual GIQ) that may be associated with a plurality of virtual processors running in a logical partition may be utilized. Upon receiving a virtual interrupt, the virtual GIQ may examine the operating states of the associated virtual processors. In an effort to ensure the virtual interrupt is processed as quickly as possible, the virtual GIQ may present the virtual interrupt to one of the associated virtual processors determined to be in an operating state best suited for processing the virtual interrupt.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于处理逻辑分区系统中的虚拟中断的方法，系统和制品。 可以利用可以与在逻辑分区中运行的多个虚拟处理器相关联的智能虚拟全局中断队列（虚拟GIQ）。 在接收到虚拟中断时，虚拟GIQ可以检查相关联的虚拟处理器的操作状态。 为了确保尽可能快地处理虚拟中断，虚拟GIQ可以将虚拟中断呈现给被确定为处于最适合于处理虚拟中断的操作状态的相关虚拟处理器之一。

公开(公告)号：US07000051B2

公开(公告)日：2006-02-14

申请号：US10403158

申请日：2003-03-31

申请人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Richard Louis Arndt ,  Naresh Nayar

发明人： William Joseph Armstrong ,  Richard Louis Arndt ,  Naresh Nayar

IPC分类号： G06F13/24 ,  G06F9/45

CPC分类号： G06F13/24 ,  G06F9/45541 ,  G06F9/4812 ,  G06F9/5077

摘要： A resource and partition manager virtualizes interrupts without using any additional hardware in a way that does not disturb the interrupt processing model of operating systems running on a logical partition. In other words, the resource and partition manager supports virtual interrupts in a logically partitioned computer system that may include share processors with no changes to a logical partition's operating system. A set of virtual interrupt registers is created for each virtual processor in the system. The resource and partition manager uses the virtual interrupt registers to process interrupts for the corresponding virtual processor. In this manner, from the point of view of the operating system, the interrupt processing when the operating system is running in a logical partition that may contain shared processors and virtual interrupts is no different that the interrupt processing when the operating system is running in computer system that only contains dedicated processor partitions.

摘要翻译： 资源和分区管理器以不干扰在逻辑分区上运行的操作系统的中断处理模型的方式，虚拟化中断而不使用任何附加硬件。 换句话说，资源和分区管理器支持逻辑分区的计算机系统中的虚拟中断，其可以包括共享处理器，而不改变逻辑分区的操作系统。 为系统中的每个虚拟处理器创建一组虚拟中断寄存器。 资源和分区管理器使用虚拟中断寄存器来处理相应虚拟处理器的中断。 以这种方式，从操作系统的观点来看，当操作系统在可能包含共享处理器和虚拟中断的逻辑分区中运行时的中断处理与操作系统在计算机中运行时的中断处理没有区别 只包含专用处理器分区的系统。