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:	BRICE, JR. FRANK W, GLENDENING BETH A, CRADDOCK DAVID, WILKINS STEPHEN G, LAIS ERIC N, GREGG THOMAS A, SZWED PETER K
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CALCULATING COMPUTING COUNTING ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING PHYSICS
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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.