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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bulent Abali, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Craig B. Agricola, Essex, VT (US);
Bartholomew Blaner, Underhill Center, VT (US);
Kenneth A. Lauricella, Colchester, VT (US);
John J. Reilly, Huntington, VT (US);
Dorothy M. Thelen, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Multiple clients may attempt to utilize a coprocessor engine within a coprocessor simultaneously. However, each engine may accomplish the particular function for which it is designed for one client at a time. Therefore, to transition from performing coprocessor engine operations between clients, the coprocessor engine may be suspended from performing operations for a first client so that it may begin performing operations for a second client. Prior to such transition, the coprocessor engine saves metadata about its operation state at the time of the suspension. At a subsequent time, when operations for the first client are to resume, the operating state of the coprocessor engine is determined utilizing the metadata and operations for the first client resume.