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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
May. 17, 2011
Gary D. Anderson, Austin, TX (US);
Charles S. Graham, Rochester, MN (US);
Andrew T. Koch, Rochester, MN (US);
Bryan M. Logan, Rochester, MN (US);
Kyle A. Lucke, Oronoco, MN (US);
Gary D. Anderson, Austin, TX (US);
Charles S. Graham, Rochester, MN (US);
Andrew T. Koch, Rochester, MN (US);
Bryan M. Logan, Rochester, MN (US);
Kyle A. Lucke, Oronoco, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A vendor-independent resource configuration interface automatically maps virtual functions to physical functions in a self-virtualizing IO resource using the concept of a logical port that maps to a particular physical port and protocol in the self-virtualizing IO resource. A user wishing to provide a logical partition access to a self-virtualizing IO resource typically creates or configures a logical port for the logical partition by mapping the logical port to a particular physical port and protocol defined for the self-virtualizing IO resource, and an appropriate virtual function mapped to an appropriate physical function on an appropriate self-virtualizing IO resource is automatically selected, typically without requiring the user to have a detailed understanding of the numbers of supported virtual functions, physical functions and protocols supported by specific resources.