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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2017
Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
James B. Williams, San Jose, CA (US);
Shawn Adam Clayton, San Jose, CA (US);
Maria Clara Gutierrez, San Jose, CA (US);
Alexander Nicolson, IV, San Jose, CA (US);
James Winston Smart, San Jose, CA (US);
John Leland Wood, San Jose, CA (US);
David James Duckman, San Jose, CA (US);
Carl John Lindeborg, San Jose, CA (US);
William Irving Leavitt, San Jose, CA (US);
Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited, Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A system for enabling input/out virtualization for a device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of host CPUs; a multi-root switch connected to each of the plurality of host CPUs via respective buses; and an inline PCI virtualizing device connected to the multi-root switch via a front-side bus and the device via a back-side bus, the inline PCI virtualizing device including a plurality sets of registers, each of the plurality sets of registers accessible by a corresponding host CPU of the plurality of host CPUs and implementing functionalities of the device.