Dynamic sharing of unused bandwidth capacity of virtualized input/output adapters

An apparatus and program product utilize priority-based bandwidth allocation to reallocate unused bandwidth capacity of a virtualized IO resource such as a self-virtualizing IO resource to one or more virtual functions in an allocation pool based upon priorities assigned to such virtual functions.

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Hauptverfasser: Stallman Adam T, Challa Narsimha R
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Zusammenfassung:An apparatus and program product utilize priority-based bandwidth allocation to reallocate unused bandwidth capacity of a virtualized IO resource such as a self-virtualizing IO resource to one or more virtual functions in an allocation pool based upon priorities assigned to such virtual functions.