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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019

Filed:

May. 26, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Juan J. Alvarez, Rochester, MN (US);

Jesse P. Arroyo, Rochester, MN (US);

Paul G. Crumley, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Charles S. Graham, Rochester, MN (US);

Joefon Jann, Ossining, NY (US);

Timothy J. Schimke, Stewartville, MN (US);

Ching-Farn E. Wu, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising executing a device driver in a private logical partition on a compute host, wherein the device driver is configured to execute in an environment different than an environment of a hypervisor of the compute host, establishing a communication channel between the private logical partition and an adjunct partition executing on the compute host, and configuring, responsive to a command sent by the adjunct partition to the device driver via the communication channel, a physical function of a single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) device of the host system.


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