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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jesse P. Arroyo, Rochester, MN (US);
Ellen M. Bauman, Rochester, MN (US);
Daniel Larson, Rochester, MN (US);
Timothy J. Schimke, Stewartville, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to an embodiment, a system, a method, and/or a computer program product is provided to allow a choice of allocating resources of a processor host bridge (PHB) at initial setup of a computer system to a group of peripheral component interconnect express (PCI-E) slots via a PCI-E switch, or alternatively to allocate resources of the PHB directly to a single PCI-E slot. The system may include a PHB, a first switch connected to the PHB, where the first switch is a simple circuit, a second switch connected to the first switch, where the second switch is a simple circuit, a PCI-E switch connected to the first switch and connected to the second switch, and a first PCI-E slot connected to the second switch.