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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
May. 26, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
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);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
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.