Remapping routing information entries in an expander

Details Remapping routing information entries in an expander Remapping routing information entries in an expander

2006-04-11

2006-04-11

Shin, Christopher (Department: 2182)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Input/output expansion

C710S300000, C710S036000, C710S062000, C711S002000, C711S200000, C709S242000, C370S392000, C370S401000, C370S395310

Reexamination Certificate

active

07028106

ABSTRACT:
A system includes a peripheral device and an expander having interfaces to couple to one or more peripheral devices and an expander. The expander has a storage to store entries containing routing information used to route a request received by the expander to one of the interfaces, wherein each interface is allocated to a respective set of routing information entries. Mapping logic remaps unused routing information of one of the interfaces to one or more other interfaces to expand capacity of the one or more other interfaces.

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