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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
May. 06, 2011
Avraham Ayzenfeld, Tel Aviv, IL;
Emmanuel Elder, Haifa, IL;
Ilya Granovsky, Haifa, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, including a first multiple of virtual function clusters positioned on a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) configuration space, each of the clusters comprising at least one virtual function, and a second multiple of physical functions positioned on the PCIe configuration space. The apparatus also includes an extended virtual function shell positioned on the PCIe configuration space and configured to select one of the physical functions, to select one of the available virtual function clusters and to associate the selected virtual function cluster with the selected the physical function.