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Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 16, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Narsimha R. Challa, Hyderabad, IN;

Charles S. Graham, Rochester, MN (US);

Swaroop Jayanthi, Bangalore, IN;

Sailaja R. Keshireddy, Hyderabad, IN;

Adam T. Stallman, Rochester, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 13/362 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 13/3625 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 41/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing dynamic adjustment of Input/Output bandwidth for Virtual Machines of a Single Root Input/Output Virtualization (SRIOV) adapter. The SRIOV adapter includes a plurality of virtual functions (VFs). Each individual virtual function (VF) is enabled to be explicitly assigned to a Virtual Machine (VM); and each of a plurality of VF teams is created with one or more VFs and is assigned to a VM. Each VF team is enabled to be dynamically resizable for dynamic adjustment of Input/Output bandwidth.


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