MEASUREMENT FACILITY FOR ADAPTER FUNCTIONS

A measurement facility is provided for capturing and presenting fine-grained usage information for adapter functions in an input/output subsystem. Adapter specific input/output traffic is tracked on a per function basis and the results are dynamically presented to the user. This information is usefu...

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Hauptverfasser:	LAIS, ERIC, NORMAN, SZWED, PETER, KENNETH, WILKINS, STEPHEN, GLENN, CRADDOCK, DAVID, GREGG, THOMAS, GLENDENING, BETH, BRICE JR, FRANK, WILLIAM
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	A measurement facility is provided for capturing and presenting fine-grained usage information for adapter functions in an input/output subsystem. Adapter specific input/output traffic is tracked on a per function basis and the results are dynamically presented to the user. This information is useful for performance tuning, load balancing and usage based charging, as examples.