International Business Machines Corporation

Margaret Dubowsky

Bruce H Ratcliff

Jerry Wayne Stevens

Stephen R Valley

Patricia G Driever

Richard P Tarcza

Francis Gassert

Dan Vangor

Embodiments herein describe techniques for establishing data constructs for a data device that enable communication between a host and a shared adapter. A shared adapter facilitates communication with one or more hosts coupled to a NIC. To do so, a host can establish the data device in each operating system that wishes to communicate with the shared adapter. This can include establishing data constructs such as storage block pages, queue indexes, and interrupt registers in the host memory. The host can then transmit a queue description record (QDR) to the shared adapter so the adapter can configure the queues and has the addresses of the data constructs in the host memory.

Data constructs for a shared network adapter

The embodiments herein describe configuring a data device that enables communication between a host and a shared network adapter. The data device can include data connections between the host and the shared network adapter. The data device can have both control queues in a control plane and data queues in a data plane. The control queues can be activated first in order to issue control commands to configure the data plane in the shared network adapter.

Configuration of data connections between a host and a shared network adapter

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