Method of minimizing host CPU utilization in driving an adapter

Details Method of minimizing host CPU utilization in driving an adapter Method of minimizing host CPU utilization in driving an adapter

1997-08-08

2000-10-03

Lee, Thomas C.

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Direct memory accessing

710 24, 710 48, G06F 1328

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061286745

ABSTRACT:
The system I/O interface and its data structure are designed to minimize the host CPU utilization in driving an adapter. The interface is also designed to reduce the system interference in processing I/O requests. To eliminate the need of using PIO instructions, the command/status blocks for exchanging messages between the system and the adapter reside in the system memory. The data structure is designed to avoid "share write" entries in order to further minimize the overhead of maintaining each coherency when updating an entry in the cache either concurrently or sequentially by both adapter and system CPU. Further, the data structure of the control and status blocks is resided in the system memory. The system CPU uses STORE instruction to prepare control blocks and LOAD instruction to read from completion status blocks; while the adapter will rely on its DMA engine to move data to/from system memory in accessing control/status blocks.

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