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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2008
Benjiman Lee Goodman, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Paul Frank Lecocq, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Praveen S. Reddy, Austin, TX (US);
Benjiman Lee Goodman, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Paul Frank Lecocq, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Praveen S. Reddy, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and program for systematically testing the functionality of all connections in a multi-tiered bus system that connects a large number of processors. Each bus controller is instructed to send a test version of a snoop request to all of the other processors and to wait for the replies. If a connection is bad, the port associated with that connection will time out. Detection of a time-out will cause the initialization process to be halted until the problem can be isolated and resolved.
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