Synchronous input/output measurement data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10120822-B2
Application number	US-201514872996-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 1, 2015
Priority date	Oct 1, 2015
Publication date	Nov 6, 2018
Grant date	Nov 6, 2018

Abstract

Aspects include acquiring measurement data of a synchronous input/output (I/O) link between an operating system and a recipient. The acquiring measurement data can include monitoring operating system usage of synchronous I/O commands on the synchronous I/O link and storing the operating system usage in a measurement block as the measurement data. Further, the measurement block is accessible by the operating system to determine that the measurement data is acquired.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions for acquiring measurement data of a synchronous input/output (I/O) link between an operating system and a recipient embodied therewith, the operating system and the recipient executing on a processor coupled to a memory, the program instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to perform:
monitoring operating system usage of synchronous I/O commands on the synchronous I/O link including identifying a plurality of operating systems using the synchronous I/O link,
wherein the plurality of operating systems includes the operating system,
wherein each of a plurality of operating systems is communicatively coupled to peripheral component interconnect function measurement block and corresponds to a separate logical partition of a synchronous system;
storing the operating system usage in a measurement block as the measurement data,
wherein the measurement block is accessed by the operating system to determine that the measurement data is acquired; and
aggregating the operating system usage from the measurement block into a link measurement block,
wherein the link measurement block comprises a peripheral component interconnect function measurement block for the synchronous I/O link that directly measures credentials of the synchronous I/O link by accumulating the measurement data related to each virtual function of each of the plurality of operating systems and the measurement data includes successful commands, processing time, local rejects, remote errors, bytes written, and bytes read for the synchronous I/O link.

2. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the synchronous I/O commands correspond to a virtual function associated with a logical partition across the synchronous I/O link.

3. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the measurement block is enabled for global reporting.

4. A system, comprising a processor and a memory storing program instructions for acquiring measurement data of a synchronous input/output (I/O) link between an operating system and a recipient embodied thereon, the operating system and the recipient executing on the processor, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the system to perform:
monitoring operating system usage of synchronous I/O commands on the synchronous I/O link including identifying a plurality of operating systems using the synchronous I/O link,
wherein the plurality of operating systems includes the operating system,
wherein each of a plurality of operating systems is communicatively coupled to peripheral component interconnect function measurement block and corresponds to a separate logical partition of a synchronous system;
storing the operating system usage in a measurement block as the measurement data,
wherein the measurement block is accessed by the operating system to determine that the measurement data is acquired; and
aggregating the operating system usage from the measurement block into a link measurement block,
wherein the link measurement block comprises a peripheral component interconnect function measurement block for the synchronous I/O link that directly measures credentials of the synchronous I/O link by accumulating the measurement data related to each virtual function of each of the plurality of operating systems and the measurement data includes successful commands, processing time, local rejects, remote errors, bytes written, and bytes read for the synchronous I/O link.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the synchronous I/O commands correspond to a virtual function associated with a logical partition across the synchronous I/O link.

6. The system of claim 4 , wherein the measurement block is enabled for global reporting.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Craddock David F
• Glendening Beth A
• Riedy Dale F
• Sutton Peter G
• Yudenfriend Harry M

Classifications

• G06F13/1689

  Synchronisation and timing concerns (synchronisation on a memory bus G06F13/4234) · CPC title

• G06F13/366 Primary

  using a centralised polling arbiter · CPC title

• G06F13/4068

  Electrical coupling · CPC title

• G06F11/3485

  for I/O devices · CPC title

• G06F11/0766

  Error or fault reporting or storing · CPC title