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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2004
Applicants:
Wei Kuo, Austin, TX (US);
James A. Pafumi, Leander, TX (US);
Robert Paul Stelzer, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer instructions for storing data relating to the switch in a context switch history containing a number of prior context switches occurring prior to a current context. The storing of data occurs in response to a change in context for a direct memory access resource. Portions of the direct memory access chain of requests are freed using the context switch history to form freed portions, wherein the freed portions are reused for requests.