Adjustment of buffer credits and other parameters in a startup phase of communications between a plurality of channels and a control unit

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10061734
APP PUB NO 20160342548A1
SERIAL NO

14717725

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A control unit provides a number of buffer credits, to one or more channels, in response to an initiation of a startup phase of communication between the one or more channels and the control unit, where the provided number of buffer credits when used for transferring data causes transfer ready operations but no retry operations. The control unit iteratively increases the number of buffer credits by an amount that is high enough to eliminate any transfer ready operations or cause retry operations to occur within a predetermined amount of time from the initiation of the startup phase.

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  • IBM CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hathorn, Roger G Tucson, US 159 2585
Holley, Bret W Tucson, US 27 276
Kalos, Matthew J Tucson, US 266 3419

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