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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Tara Astigarraga, Fairport, NY (US);
Christopher V. Derobertis, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Louie A. Dickens, Tucson, AZ (US);
Michael E. Starling, Honesdale, PA (US);
Daniel J. Winarski, Tucson, AZ (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments for regulating link speed for performance enhancement and port diagnosis are provided. In response to identifying an amount of errors in a communications link above a predetermined threshold, an applicable transmission speed is selectively reduced. If errors identified at the reduced transmission speed are found to decrease, a communications port incorporating the communications link is flagged as potentially dirty, and if the errors identified at the reduced transmission speed are found to remain constant, the communications port is flagged as potentially bad.