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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2003
Stephan Otis Broyles, Austin, TX (US);
Hemlata Nellimarla, Austin, TX (US);
Atit D. Patel, Austin, TX (US);
Stephan Otis Broyles, Austin, TX (US);
Hemlata Nellimarla, Austin, TX (US);
Atit D. Patel, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and product are disclosed in a data processing system for serializing hardware reset requests in a software communication request queue in a processor card. The processor card processes software communication requests utilizing the queue in a serial order. A hardware reset request is received by the processor card and put in the queue. The hardware reset request is processed from the queue in the serial order with all requests from the queue that are currently being serviced have completed being serviced.