公开(公告)号：US5220654A

公开(公告)日：1993-06-15

申请号：US677027

申请日：1991-03-28

申请人： S. Michael Benson ,  Richard Cwiakala ,  Mark J. Fantacone ,  Jeffrey D. Haggar ,  Alan S. Meritt ,  Harry M. Yudenfriend

发明人： S. Michael Benson ,  Richard Cwiakala ,  Mark J. Fantacone ,  Jeffrey D. Haggar ,  Alan S. Meritt ,  Harry M. Yudenfriend

IPC分类号： G06F13/14 ,  G06F15/16

CPC分类号： G06F15/161

摘要： An installation creates a source I/O definition file (IODF), defining a current system I/O configuration, and a target IODF, defining a future I/O configuration. When the configuration definition is dynamically changed from the current to the target, a serialization mechanism--comprising a "device pin" technique and a "group serialization" technique to handle changed device group definitions--insures that data integrity is not lost on devices undergoing reconfiguration; and a change detection mechanism insures that changes to control structures affected by the dynamic reconfiguration, are noticed by programs accessing those control structures while the structures are changing.