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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2009
Ron Encarnacion Gonzalez, Austin, TX (US);
Binh K. Hua, Austin, TX (US);
Sivarama K. Kodukula, Round Rock, TX (US);
Ron Encarnacion Gonzalez, Austin, TX (US);
Binh K. Hua, Austin, TX (US);
Sivarama K. Kodukula, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method in a data processing system for managing transmission of pause frames. In response to detecting an overflow condition during a receipt of data from a network, enabling flow control in response to detecting the overflow condition. The flow control is enabled as long as the overflow condition is present. A determination is made as to whether the operating system unavailable after a period of time passes. If the operating system believed to have crashed and flow control is enabled, the flow control is disabled.