International Business Machines Corporation

Paul M Gioquindo

Stephen R Valley

Bruce H Ratcliff

Chin Lee

Ping T Chan

Ying-Yeung Li

Mooheng Zee

Theodore Joseph Bohizic

Richard T Brandle

Gary R Morrill

Michael S Cirulli

The emulation of a data processing I/O protocol employs a process which obviates the need to consider hardware specific functionality for which emulation is not an optimal solution. The particular protocol described in exemplary fashion herein is the OSA protocol as defined by Open System Adapter standards. The use of this emulation is also seen to leave in place all of the software tools otherwise employed.

Input/output processor (IOP) based emulation

The emulation of an adapter for I/O to link a host data processing system to a local area network provides advantages of memory to memory transfer which results in higher data transfer rates while at the same time providing a mechanism for working with two data transfer vectors in an overlapping fashion.

Emulated Z-series queued direct I/O

Input/output processor (IOP) based zSeries emulation

An article of manufacture, method and system are provided for facilitating input/output (I/O) processing of at least one guest processing system. The article of manufacture includes at least one computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code logic to facilitate the I/O processing of the at least one guest processing system. The computer-readable program code logic when executing performing the following: emulating on a native system an I/O architecture for the at least one guest processing system, the emulating including: providing multiple device managers for a plurality of I/O devices of the I/O architecture; providing at least one communications adapter process interfacing the multiple device managers to the at least one network driver process; and wherein the multiple device managers translate I/O messages in at least one guest processing system format to messages in native system format for processing by the at least one communications adapter process, thereby facilitating I/O processing.

Facilitating input/output processing of one or more guest processing systems

In a mainframe class data processing system having multiple logical partitions and a port to a network, a host-network interface is established for reducing network overhead at the multiple partitions. The host-network interface includes, for example, a host channel connection coupling the multiple partitions of the host system to a communications adapter having a network device driver for each network coupled to the adapter. The adapter also includes an address resolution protocol (ARP) cache designed to hold predetermined media headers for the clients coupled to the network(s) for use in forwarding an internet protocol (IP) datagram across the network to one of the clients from a partition of the host system. Provision is also made for partition-to-partition communication of IP datagrams by storing IP addresses of the logical partitions as HOME addresses in the ARP cache of the adapter.

Communication between multiple partitions employing host-network interface

In a mainframe class data processing system having multiple logical partitions and a port to a network, a host-network interface is established for reducing network overhead at the multiple partitions. The host-network interface includes, for example, a host channel connection coupling the multiple partitions of the host system to a communications adapter having a network device driver for each network coupled to the adapter. The adapter also includes an address resolution protocol (ARP) cache designed to hold predetermined media headers for the clients coupled to the network(s) for use in forwarding an internet protocol (IP) datagram across the network to one of the clients from a partition of the host system. If not predetermined, the adapter is provided with a capability to dynamically determine the needed media header for transmission of the IP datagram across the network to the client. In Ethernet format, this dynamically determining includes forwarding an Ethernet 802.3 ARP request and an Ethernet DIX ARP request from the IP datagram. Provision is also made for partition-to-partition communication of IP datagrams by storing IP addresses of the logical partitions as HOME addresses in the ARP cache of the adapter.

Article of manufacture for communications of multiple partitions employing host-network interface, and address resolution protocol for constructing data frame format according to client format

Method of using address resolution protocol for constructing data frame formats for multiple partitions host network interface communications

System for communications of multiple partitions employing host-network interface, and address resolution protocol for constructing data frame format according to client format

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Paul M Gioquindo