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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2011
Harm Peter Hofstee, Austin, TX (US);
Charles Ray Johns, Austin, TX (US);
James Allan Kahle, Austin, TX (US);
Harm Peter Hofstee, Austin, TX (US);
Charles Ray Johns, Austin, TX (US);
James Allan Kahle, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A flexible input/output controller logic interfaces with existing input/output controllers (IOC's) in order to configure the amount of data sent to and received from the IOC's. The flexible I/O interface receives data from a component at a rate determined by the particular component. The flexible I/O interface then feeds the received data to a traditional I/O controller at a rate suitable for the I/O controller. Thus, the interface to the individual I/O controllers is maintained. The flexible I/O logic balances bandwidth between a plurality of individual I/O controllers in order to better utilize the overall system I/O bandwidth. In one embodiment, the I/O configuration managed by the flexible I/O logic is determined during system-build, while in another embodiment, the I/O configuration is set during system initialization.