Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090138887 | Virtual machine monitor and multiprocessor sysyem - In order to provide an interface of acquiring physical position information of an I/O device on a virtual machine monitor having an exclusive allocation function of the I/O device and optimize allocation of a resource to a virtual server by using the acquired physical position information, a virtual machine monitor includes an interface of allocating a resource in accordance with a given policy (a parameter of determining to which a priority is given in distributing resources) for an I/O device, a CPU NO., and a memory amount request to guest OS. Further, the virtual machine monitor includes an interface of pertinently converting physical position information of the resource allocated by the virtual machine monitor to notice to guest OS. | 05-28-2009 |
20090150896 | POWER CONTROL METHOD FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE AND VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM - Provided is a method of controlling a virtual computer system in which a physical computer includes a plurality of physical CPUs that is switchable between a sleep state and a normal state, and a virtualization control unit divides the physical computer into a plurality of logical partitions to run a guest OS in each of the logical partitions and controls allocation of resources of the physical computer to the logical partitions, causes the virtualization control unit to: receive an operation instruction for operating the logical partitions; and if the operation instruction is for deleting a virtual CPU from one of the logical partitions, delete this virtual CPU from a table for managing virtual CPU-physical CPU allocation and put, if the deleting leaves no virtual CPUs allocated to one of the physical CPUs that has been allocated the deleted virtual CPU, this one of the physical CPUs into the sleep state. | 06-11-2009 |
20090187694 | Computer system and management method thereof - Disclosed herewith is a composite type computer system that can assure that a PCI tree to be allocated to a computer is configured completely before the computer is powered. The composite type computer system includes a PCI switch that connects plural computers through PCI interfaces; plural PCI devices connected to the PCI switch; a system controller that controls the computers; and a PCI manager that controls allocation of the PCI devices to the computers. The system controller carries out processings in the steps of (a) powering an object computer to start up its OS; (b) acquiring the identifier of a PCI tree allocated by the system controller to the computer and PCI tree management information denoting the status of the PCI tree; (c) retrying the powering or canceling the powering of the computer if the acquired PCI tree management information denotes the status “not initialized”; and (d) carrying out the powering for the computer if the acquired PCI management information denotes the status “initialized”. | 07-23-2009 |
20090198862 | Method for switching I/O path in a computer system having an I/O switch - The physical server includes a hypervisor for managing an association between the virtual server and the I/O device allocated to the virtual server. The I/O switch includes: a setting register for retaining a request to inhibit a transaction from being issued from the I/O device to the virtual server; a Tx inhibition control module for performing an inhibition of the transaction from the I/O device to the virtual server, and guaranteeing a completion of a transaction from the I/O device issued before the inhibition; a virtualization assist module for converting an address of the virtual server into an address within a memory of the physical server; and a switch management module for managing a configuration of the I/O switch. | 08-06-2009 |
20090216913 | Data processing system for keeping isolation between logical partitions - When a subject of access of a transaction from an IO device is not any resource allocated to a logical partition to which the device having issued the transaction belongs, a report as an error is sent to a CPU, while the transaction is finished on the IO bus. To prevent a transaction between IO devices from gaining access to any resource in another logical partition, one access permission bit is provided for each combination of all the IO devices, and the access is permitted only when the bit has a predetermined value. A reset signal is provided by IO slot so that only an IO slot allocated to a specific logical partition can be reset without affecting any other logical partition. A transaction issued from an IO device in one logical partition is prevented from gaining access to a resource in another logical partition, while proper error handling can be performed. | 08-27-2009 |
20090265501 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AN ACCESS PATH - Provided is a computer system including I/O devices coupled to PCI switches coupled via interfaces of a plurality of servers, and a management block for managing configurations of the PCI switches. The management block is configured to: set, to the PCI switch, a first access path including a virtual bridge coupling the interface of a first server and a virtual switch, and a virtual bridge coupling the I/O device and the virtual switch; set, to the PCI switch, a second access path including a virtual bridge coupling the interface of a second server of the plurality of servers and a virtual switch, and a virtual bridge coupling the I/O device used by the first server and the virtual switch; disable mapping of the second access path between the I/O device and the virtual bridge; and instruct the second server to make access to the I/O device. | 10-22-2009 |
20100036995 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND BUS ASSIGNMENT METHOD - To make it possible to take over an IO configuration that is assigned to logical partitions in reallocation of the logical partitions, and to make an IO access work normally. A computer system has a server having an IO bridge, a switch that has a first IO bridge for connecting with the IO bridge of the server through a bus and plural second IO bridges for connecting to plural IO devices through a bus, and bus number assignment management means for fixedly assigning mutually different PCI bus numbers to the plural second IO bridges. | 02-11-2010 |
20100082874 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING PCI DEVICES THEREOF - In order to provide an inexpensive way to share an I/O device loaded in an I/O drawer among a plurality of blades, in a server system including a plurality of servers, a PCI device, and a manager for initializing a PCI switch, the PCI device has a plurality of virtual functions (VFs). The PCI switch, which has VF allocation information which indicates association between the servers and the VFs, is configured to: receive a transaction from one of the servers or from the PCI device; when the received transaction is a transaction sent from the one of the servers, remove a server identifier with which a sender server is identified and transfer the received transaction to the PCI device; and when the received transaction is a transaction sent from the PCI device, attach a server identifier that is determined based on the VF allocation information. | 04-01-2010 |
20100153615 | COMPOUND COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING PCI DEVICES THEREOF - A resource management module of a management server for controlling a multi-root I/O manager connected to a PCI switch for connecting a plurality of I/O devices and a plurality of computers with each other includes: failure handling content information indicating, for each computer sharing a multi-root I/O device, a content of a failure handling at an occurrence of a failure in the multi-root I/O device; and failure handling availability status information indicating whether a hardware reset of the multi-root I/O device is possible and updates, upon reception of a notification of the occurrence of the failure in the multi-root I/O device, the failure handling availability status information, and instructs, based on the failure handling availability status information, the multi-root I/O manager to restrain or cancel the hardware reset of the multi-root I/O device. | 06-17-2010 |
20100211717 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, METHOD OF MANAGING PCI SWITCH, AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - It is provided a computer system including computers, PCI switches each having first and second ports, a switch management module and a power control module. The switch management module includes an identifying module for identifying a first port coupled to the computer to be booted up, and notifying the PCI switch of the first port, an instruction module for instructing the power control module to boot up the computer, and an allocation management module for managing allocation of one of the I/O device to the computer and notifying the one of the PCI switches of the allocation after the computer is booted up. The PCI switches includes a preventing control module for preventing the computer from detecting a configuration of the first port, and a virtual switch generating module for generating a virtual switch that couples the first port and the second port based on the notification. | 08-19-2010 |
20110004706 | Data processing system for keeping isolation between logical partitions - When a subject of access of a transaction from an IO device is not any resource allocated to a logical partition to which the device having issued the transaction belongs, a report as an error is sent to a CPU, while the transaction is finished on the IO bus. To prevent a transaction between IO devices from gaining access to any resource in another logical partition, one access permission bit is provided for each combination of all the IO devices, and the access is permitted only when the bit has a predetermined value. A reset signal is provided by IO slot so that only an IO slot allocated to a specific logical partition can be reset without affecting any other logical partition. A transaction issued from an IO device in one logical partition is prevented from gaining access to a resource in another logical partition, while proper error handling can be performed. | 01-06-2011 |
20110289502 | VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEM - Arbitration of IO accesses and band control based on the priority of virtual servers is enabled while curbing performance overhead during IO sharing among the virtual servers. A virtual machine system includes a CPU, a memory, a hypervisor that generates plural virtual servers, and an IO controller that controls an IO interface. The IO controller includes: a DMA receiving unit that receives DMA requests from the IO interface; a decoder that decodes received DMA requests and locates the corresponding virtual servers; a DMA monitoring counter that monitors DMA processing status for each of the virtual servers; a threshold register set in advance for each of the virtual servers; and a priority deciding unit that compares the DMA monitoring counter and the value of the threshold register, and based on processing priority obtained as a result of the comparison, decides the priority of processing of the received DMA requests. | 11-24-2011 |
20130111082 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING PCI DEVICES THEREOF | 05-02-2013 |